It’s the story of a professional divorce… which goes badly. The Altice group, owner of BFM and RMC, announced, by press releasethis Monday announced that he would initiate legal proceedings against Jean-Jacques Bourdin.
“Mr. Jean-Jacques Bourdin is increasing his public and unfounded attacks against his former employer and his former colleagues,” denounces Altice. “The successive denigrations of Mr. Jean-Jacques Bourdin towards Altice Media, BFM, RMC, its employees and managers, will be the subject of appropriate legal proceedings,” specifies the group, not wishing to make further comments.
“I could no longer work with Marc-Olivier Fogiel”
Invited on Sunday on the set of C Médiatique on France 5, Jean-Jacques Bourdin returned to this separation, particularly targeting Marc-Olivier Fogiel, general director of BFMTV. “I could no longer work with Marc-Olivier Fogiel,” he declared. “I have always been very independent (…) no one has ever interfered in my work. I never accepted this. (…) and Marc-Olivier Fogiel constantly called me saying I have to call so-and-so… I can’t work like that (…) If Marc-Olivier Fogiel leaves, I will go to BFM,” said the presenter now for Sud Radio. “Today, I will not give names, but other personalities from the channel want to leave,” added the 74-year-old journalist.
The presenter and the channel ended their collaboration in June 2022 following an internal investigation. He was the target of a complaint for sexual assault filed six months earlier by journalist Fanny Agostini, former weather presenter for RMC-BFMTV, for facts dating back to 2013. A few days later, a second woman also filed a complaint for assault sexual harassment and sexual exhibition, accusing Jean-Jacques Bourdin of events that occurred in the late 1980s.