The BFMTV and RMC journalist was the target of a complaint from a former colleague for facts dating back to 2013. Fanny Agostini’s lawyer is not “surprised” by the legal outcome.
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Jean-Jacques Bourdin had been dismissed from the air on January 23, a few days after the opening of the investigation.
The sexual assault investigation targeting Jean-Jacques Bourdin was dismissed on April 7, for prescription of public action, the journalist announced on Friday in a press release sent by his lawyer. This was confirmed by the Paris prosecutor’s office.
On January 19, a few days after the revelation of a complaint against Jean-Jacques Bourdin by a former journalist from BFMTV-RMC, for facts dating back to 2013, the Paris prosecutor’s office indicated that it had opened a preliminary investigation for sexual assault, entrusted to the police station of the XVIth arrondissement.
In mid-February, journalist Fanny Agostini, former weather presenter for BFMTV-RMC, then passed through Thalassa, revealed in Mediapart to be the source of this complaint. According to her, the facts would have occurred in 2013 in Corsica, in Calvi. A few days later, a second woman also filed a complaint for sexual assault, harassment and sexual exhibition, accusing Jean-Jacques Bourdin of events that occurred in the late 1980s.
Defense “not surprised”
“I have always firmly contested the facts of which I was accused”, recalls, in his press release, the journalist, who had been dismissed from the antennas of BFMTV and RMC, on January 23, a few days after the opening of the investigation. . “I denounce the public instrumentalization of this procedure and deplore the serious attacks that have been made on my personal life and my professional life.”
This “classification is not a surprise, since the complaint was effectively time-barred,” reacted Fanny Agostini’s lawyer, regretting however that she had not been notified “of any act of investigation, neither by the police nor by the floor”.