In mid-February, journalist Fanny Agostini, former weather presenter for RMC-BFMTV, revealed that she was at the origin of this complaint, dismissed for prescription of public action.
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The investigation for sexual assault targeting Jean-Jacques Bourdin has been dismissed, the journalist announced on Friday April 8, in a press release sent by his lawyer, Me Christian Saint-Palais.
The Paris public prosecutor’s office justifies the dismissal by the prescription of the public action.“I have always firmly contested the facts with which I was accused”underlined Jean-Jacques Bourdin, denouncing “the public instrumentalization of this procedure”.
On January 19, a few days after the revelation of a complaint against Jean-Jacques Bourdin by a former BFMTV / RMC journalist for facts dating back to 2013, the Paris prosecutor’s office had opened a preliminary investigation for sexual assault, entrusted to the police station. of the 16th arrondissement.
In mid-February, journalist Fanny Agostini, former weather presenter for RMC-BFMTV, then passed through Thalassa, revealed in Mediapart to be the source of this complaint. According to her, the facts would have occurred in 2013 in Corsica, in Calvi.
A few days later, a second woman also filed a complaint for sexual assault, harassment and sexual exhibition, accusing the presenter of events that occurred in the late 1980s.
This “classification is not a surprise since the complaint was effectively time-barred”reacted Me Laure Heinich, lawyer for Fanny Agostini, regretting however not to have been informed “of any act of investigation, neither by the police nor by the prosecution”.