The journalist Fanny Agostini, ex-host of Thalassa, revealed Monday to be at the origin of the complaint for “attempted sexual assault” filed against Jean-Jacques Bourdin. In an interview with Médiapart, she gave her version of the events that took place in 2013 in Corsica. The investigative media also collected other testimonies, some identified, others anonymous, targeting the host of RMC-BFMTV. Following this complaint, the Paris prosecutor’s office opened an investigation and Altice, the parent company of BFMTV and RMC, decided to open an internal investigation.
In her interview with Médiapart, Fanny Agostini returned to the facts dating back to 2013 when she participated in the Calvi Petanque Open in Corsica, where Jean-Jacques Bourdin was also invited. The one who at the time presented the weather forecast on RMC-BFMTV said that one morning, while she was swimming in the hotel swimming pool, Jean-Jacques Bourdin came closer “very quickly“, the “grabbed by the neck, on the side“, and has it”suddenly drawn to him“trying to kiss her”Many times“.”Taking lessons“, she says she has “not shouted“, but to be “debated” and managed to get out of the water.
“I always get what I want”
Jean-Jacques Bourdin, can we read in Mediapart, would have then launched to him: “I always get what I want“. A phrase that “has punctuated (his) nightmares for years“. And that Fanny Agostini says she lived “like a threat from someone who had a hierarchical ascendancy“. She then assures that between September 2014 and spring 2015, the host sent her, in the midst of professional exchanges, numerous messages with a sexual connotation. Like the one of November 27, 2014, which Mediapart says it obtained , received on his work email: “You tempt me every morning… I like your look“.
Jean-Jacques Bourdin did not respond to Mediapart, which says it asked for all the testimonies. Journalist Sidonie Bonnec, host on France 2 and France Bleu, also testifies in Mediapart. A young journalist wishing to do radio, she was invited to a festival in Calvi by Jean-Jacques Bourdin in 2010. The host, according to the words of the young woman, assured her that she would be staying at a hotel. But before leaving, he would have called to tell him that the hotel is full and that by “lucky” he “has a villa with a friend“.
He reportedly added:There’s a swimming pool, don’t forget your bathing suit“.”This sentence cut my legs“, she told Mediapart, “it wasn’t professional at all“Arrived at the airport with her companion, she says she saw Jean-Jacques Bourdin who would have contented himself with sending them a greeting”from afar“.”After that, I never heard from anyone again. Of course I never got the job“, she underlines.