For its part, Altice Media indicated that it had “decided to put an end to the employment contract of Mr. Jean-Jacques Bourdin and thus cease all collaboration“. A Decision Made”due to events that occurred and were brought to the attention of management during 2022“These events reported are the accusations against Jean-Jacques Bourdin. In mid-January, an internal investigation was opened and the Paris prosecutor’s office quickly followed. The identity of the complainant, for a time kept secret, was finally revealed: it is Fanny Agostini, ex-weather presenter of BFMTV-RMC who was also at the helm of Thalassa.
Everything would have started in Corsica, in 2013, when Jean-Jacques Bourdin would have “tried to kiss her several times“, “without succeeding“. The facilitator would have struggled before hearing these words which still resonate in her: “I always get what I want!“For months, he would have sent her insistent emails and SMS, enough to arouse real fear for her, until his departure from the group in 2017.
In mid-February, a second woman had filed a complaint for sexual assault, harassment and sexual exhibition, accusing Jean-Jacques Bourdin of events that occurred in the late 1980s. The investigation was closed in April due to prescription of the facts, the time limit in this respect being six years.
For his part, the accused, supported by his wife Anne Nivat, has always formally denied the accusations. “I denounce the public manipulation of this procedure and deplore the serious attacks that have been made on my personal life and my professional life.“, he said then.
Remember that Jean-Jacques Bourdin remains presumed innocent of the facts of which he is accused until the trial.