Héloïse Goy and Solène Delinger 9:58 a.m., February 15, 2022
Journalist Fanny Agostini revealed yesterday in the columns of Mediapart that she was at the origin of the complaint for "attempted sexual assault" filed against Jean-Jacques Bourdin.
France 2 host Sidonnie Bonnec also testifies in this survey carried out by Marine Turchi.
Jean-Jacques Bourdin denies the facts.
"I said to myself: is it normal what I experienced? Do women have to put up with this?".
Journalist Fanny Agostini revealed yesterday in the columns of Mediapart that she was at the origin of the complaint for "attempted sexual assault" filed against Jean-Jacques Bourdin.
The facts would have taken place in a swimming pool in Calvi in 2013.
Messages with a sexual connotation
One morning, while swimming in the hotel pool, the 72-year-old entertainer allegedly approached "very quickly", "grabbed her by the neck"
and would have "pulled her towards him abruptly" to try to kiss her "repeatedly"
.
Fanny Agostini confides that she was "taken lessons", did "not (have) shouted" and "struggled" before managing to get out of the pool.
Jean-Jacques Bourdin would then have said to him: "I always get what I want".
The journalist explains that this sentence haunted her "for years" and felt it "like a threat from someone who had a hierarchical ascendancy"
.
She would then have received from Jean-Jacques Bourdin emails with a sexual connotation.
>> Find Philippe Vandel and Culture-Médias every day from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Europe 1 as well as in replay and podcast here
Sidonie Bonnec testifies against Bourdin
The investigation, carried out by Marine Turchi, who had already worked on the PPDA affair and the Adèle Haenel affair, also relays other testimonies, in particular that of Sidonie Bonnec.
The host of France 2 and France Bleu assures that when she was a young journalist who wanted to do radio, Jean-Jacques Bourdin had invited her to a festival in Corsica.
According to her, the journalist had called her just before departure to tell her that she would not ultimately be at the hotel but in a villa with him.
He would have asked her to take her bathing suit for the swimming pool.
Following this announcement, Sidonie Bonnec had refused to go to this festival.
She would then never have heard from the journalist again.
Dismissed from the antennas of BFMTV and RMC, Jean-Jacques Bourdin denies the facts of which he is accused.
The Paris prosecutor's office has opened an investigation and another internal investigation has been opened by Altice, the group holding the continuous news channel.