Europe 1 with AFP 8 p.m., February 17, 2022

A new complaint for "sexual assault", "harassment" and "sexual exhibition" was filed Wednesday at the police station of the 16th arrondissement of Paris against journalist Jean-Jaques Bourdin.

This complaint is in addition to that filed by Fanny Agostini last January for "attempted sexual assault". 

Journalist Jean-Jacques Bourdin is the subject of a new complaint, in particular for "sexual assault", facts which date from 1988 and are time-barred, the complainant's lawyer said on Thursday.

Me Eric Morain confirmed to AFP information from the

Parisian

concerning this complaint for "sexual assault", "harassment" and "sexual exhibition", filed Wednesday at the police station of the XVIth arrondissement, in charge of an investigation opened in mid-January following a first complaint against Mr. Bourdin.

Reporter allegedly offered to pay for sex

The second complainant, "Marie", recounts having welcomed Mr. Bourdin in a communication company where she worked near Paris in 1988 and where he came to give a "mediatraining" course.

According to her, Mr. Bourdin quickly made sexual allusions to her and then offered to see her again.

Some time later, they would have found themselves in a car near RTL, where Mr. Bourdin then worked, and the journalist would have "shown his penis erect" and would have offered sex, then would have offered to pay her for it , "2,000 francs", according to his account.

A "brutal" behavior

He would then have tried to kiss her "in a rather brutal way by bringing her body closer to mine and by pinning me against the door (...). He grabbed my left hand with his right hand and directed it towards his sex still erect", according to the statements of "Marie".

Subsequently, Mr. Bourdin would have had problematic sexual behavior during new visits to Marie's work, “masturbating while (her) watching” for example, according to her.

Second complaint filed against Bourdin

In mid-January, journalist Fanny Agostini, former weather presenter of RMC-BFMTV, then passed by Thalassa, filed a complaint for "attempted sexual assault", facts which allegedly occurred in 2013 in Corsica, in Calvi.

The facts denounced by Marie and Mrs. Agostini could be prescribed since the time limit in this matter is six years.

Mr. Bourdin's lawyer, Me Christian Saint-Palais, said he was "scandalized that one can undermine the honor of a man by evoking facts whose reality Jean-Jacques Bourdin absolutely disputes, and who would be 34 years old".

Disputed facts

“I expect the prosecution to classify this complaint without delay on the simple obvious observation that such facts would obviously be prescribed,” asked the criminal lawyer.

The journalist, temporarily removed from the antenna on BFMTV and RMC, had already "firmly contested having had actions or attitudes likely to be repressed by law, both in his professional sphere and outside".