It is the newspaper Le Parisien which reveals the case this Saturday. A complaint was filed Tuesday in Paris for “sexual assault” against journalist Jean-Jacques Bourdin. The facts date back to 2013: during a professional event in Corsica, a former BFM-TV journalist accuses Jean-Jacques Bourdin of having tried to kiss her several times by grabbing her by the neck while they were bathing in the swimming pool of the hotel where they were staying. She would have struggled to escape and he would have told her: “I always get what I want”. Then he would have sent him, still according to this account, “for several months insistent emails and text messages” details the plaintiff’s lawyer, Maître Laure Heinich.
This woman, now 33, worked for several years with the star journalist of the BFMTV-RMC morning, from which he was dismissed in the summer of 2020, after 19 years of service.
The Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that it had received this complaint and that it was being examined.