Europe 1 with AFP 3:12 p.m., April 8, 2022

The sexual assault investigation targeting Jean-Jacques Bourdin has been dismissed, the journalist announced on Friday in a press release sent by his lawyer, Me Christian Saint-Palais.

The sexual assault investigation targeting Jean-Jacques Bourdin has been dismissed, the journalist announced on Friday in a press release sent by his lawyer, Me Christian Saint-Palais.

This investigation was dismissed on April 7 for prescription of public action, confirmed the Paris prosecutor's office, requested by AFP.

"I have always firmly contested the facts of which I have been reproached", underlined Jean-Jacques Bourdin, denouncing "the public instrumentalization of this procedure".

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