The facilitator, subject to a complaint for sexual assault, was removed from the antenna “at the request of the direction”.
Le Monde with AFP
Jean-Jacques Bourdin will no longer be on RMC and BMF-TV in the coming days. The television and radio facilitator, aimed at a complaint for sexual assault, is dismissed “temporarily” of the antenna, announced, Sunday, January 23, the mother house of the two media, altice, which did not specify the duration of this relief, nor its legal modalities.
“Jean-Jacques Bourdin, at the request of the direction, temporarily withdraws BFM-TV and RMC antennas. This decision has been taken not to prejudice the daily functioning of BFM-TV and RMC” , the group reported in a statement, recalling that the journalist “vigorously contests the facts”.
The complaint, consulted by the Agency-France Presse, emanates from a former collaborator, for several years, of the famous 72-year-old facilitator. This young woman, who is now 33, describes the aggression as having taken place in the pool of a Calvi hotel (Haute-Corse) in October 2013.
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An investigation was entrusted by the Paris Prosecutor’s Office at the Commissioner of 16 e arrondissement. It could lead to the finding that the facts are prescribed, since the deadline for six years.
Altice “recalls that an internal investigation has been opened to ensure that no fact of this type has been brought to the knowledge of employees and managers of the company”.
“The political interview of 8:30 am, on BFM-TV and RMC, will be ensured by Apolline of Malherbe from Monday,” said the group, while “France in the eyes”, on BFM- TV, will be animated by Bruce Toussaint.
Friday morning, the ecological candidate for the Presidential Yannick Jadot had canceled an interview in the show of Mr. Bourdin, while three days earlier the candidate of the Party the Republicans Valérie Pécresse had pointed out to “clearly posed the question “of his coming or not. She had finally participated in the show in which she had supported women who complain about sexual assault.