BFMTV journalist Jean-Jacques Bourdin sacked after accusations of sexual assault

Known for his political interviews in the morning of BFMTV, the 73-year-old journalist was dismissed from the group’s antennas last January.

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The decision is justified by “the events” revealed at the start of the year. The Altice Media group announced on Friday June 17 that it had “decided to terminate the employment contract” of his journalist Jean-Jacques Bourdin, figure of the morning of BFMTV and RMC, with whom he goes “to cease all collaboration”.

Dismissed from the antenna since January after a first complaint for sexual assault, the 73-year-old journalist was targeted by an investigation by the Paris prosecutor’s office. The procedure, initiated from a complaint by journalist Fanny Agostini, was finally dismissed, in April, due to prescription of the facts, these dating back to 2013. “I have always firmly contested the facts with which I was accused”had then commented Jean-Jacques Bourdin.

A second complaint for “sexual assault”, “harassment” and “exhibition” was filed in February by a 60-year-old woman. The plaintiff denounces facts dating from the spring of 1988, that is to say thirty-four years later, and which are therefore time-barred. “Jean-Jacques Bourdin denies having ever assaulted a woman and having masturbated in front of a women, reacted his defense. This media binge and this soap opera are unbearable.” Finally, several former female colleagues of Jean-Jacques Bourdin had testified, in Mediapart (paid item), of “inappropriate behavior” of the journalist.


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