The Jean-Jacques Bourdin affair, the star journalist of RMC and BFMTV, takes on a new dimension with the name and face of the woman who accuses the radio and television host. Fanny Agostini confided in Mediapartrevealing this February 14 to be the source of the complaint for “attempted sexual assault” against the presenter of Direct Bourdin. The investigative review also collected other testimonies, some identified as that of Sidonie Bonnec, and others anonymous, targeting the famous host. Jean-Jacques Bourdin, temporarily removed from the air on BFMTV and RMC, denies the facts of which Fanny Agostini accuses him. An investigation was entrusted by the Paris prosecutor’s office to the 16th arrondissement police station and an internal investigation was opened by Altice, parent company of BFMTV and RMC.
According to Mediapartthere was a “click” for the women who accuse him: the interview of Nicolas Hulot by the host, in February 2018, on BFM TV and RMC, shortly before the publication of the magazine’s investigation Ebdo on the accusations of sexual violence against the former minister. “He was super accommodating, it felt like he was sympathetic, it made me grit my teeth.”recalls Fanny Agostini in Mediapart. “I said to myself: is this normal what I experienced? Do women have to put up with this?“
Fanny Agostini (33) is known for being the presenter of Thalassa on France 3 from 2017 to 2019, she also hosted the weather on RMC and BFMTV. The facts of which she accuses Jean-Jacques Bourdin would have taken place in 2013, when she participated in the Calvi Petanque Open, in Corsica, where the famous presenter was also invited. Early one morning, she is swimming in the hotel pool. Jean-Jacques Bourdin would have approached “tvery quickly”would have it”grabbed by the neck, on the side“, and would have 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. According to this testimony published in Mediapart, the reporter would have retorted: “I always get what I want“A phrase that”punctuated [ses] nightmares for years”. And that Fanny Agostini says she lived “as a threat from someone who had a hierarchical ascendancy“.
The young mother of a little Darwin and now settled on a farm in Auvergne then assures that between September 2014 and spring 2015, the facilitator sent him, in the midst of professional exchanges, many messages with a sexual connotation. Like the one from November 27, 2014, which Mediapart claims to have obtained, received on his professional email: “You tempt me every morning… I like your look“. Jean-Jacques Bourdin did not respond to Mediapart, who said he asked for all the testimonies.
Among other testimonies of Mediapartstand out that of the journalist Sidonie Bonnecpresenter on France 2 (Everyone has a say) and France Bleu. Budding journalist wishing to do radio, she was invited to a festival in Calvi by Jean-Jacques Bourdin in 2010. Anne Nivat’s husband, according to the words of the young woman, assured her that she would be housed at the ‘hotel. But before leaving, he would have called to tell him that the hotel is full and that “luck”, he “has a villa with a friend“. He would have added: “There is a swimming pool, don’t forget your bathing suit”. “This sentence cut my legs“, she said to 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“, underlines the companion of the director and producer Jérôme Korkikian and mother of two children.
Jean-Jacques Bourdin remains presumed innocent of the charges against him until the end of the investigation.