Anne Nivat never kept her tongue in her pocket in the media-judicial case in which her husband had found himself. Last April, while Jean-Jacques Bourdin’s future was still uncertain and he assured his followers that he was preparing his return, she was already reacting to his sidelining. “Those who have badly dismissed you from your passion, from what you have been doing for so many years with professionalism, are incapable of grasping the bond that unites you to your audience. What counts, however, is this: the love of his profession and the respect of the public.“, she wrote then on Twitter.
As a reminder, it is Fanny Agostini who is at the origin of the complaints against Jean-Jacques Bourdin. The former weather presenter of the same group and ex-host of Thalassa had told to Mediapart that the facts had taken place in 2013, when she was 24 years old. The investigative magazine had also collected the testimonies of other women, including that of Sidonie Bonnec. Then, a 61-year-old woman revealed to the Parisian having lodged a complaint with the police station of the XVIth arrondissement of Paris against Jean-Jacques Bourdin. She accused him of “sexual assault”, “harassment” and “sexual exhibition”. Actions also prescribed because dating from 1988.