For BFMTV viewers and RMC listeners, the interview with Jean-Jacques Bourdin, this Friday, January 21, was very normal.
For about twenty minutes, the journalist questioned the industrialist Michel-Edouard Leclerc.
Except that originally, the guest was to be Yannick Jadot, as revealed by our colleagues from the Obs.
An invitation that the Europe Ecology-Greens candidate for the presidential election ended up declining Thursday morning, following the opening of an investigation after a complaint of attempted sexual assault against the interviewer .
"It's starting to get complicated…" notes a journalist from BFMTV.
For the moment, TV and radio maintain Jean-Jacques Bourdin, recalling the principle of the presumption of innocence.
"We feel that it doesn't take much for it to be decided to set it back", specifies a person close to the management.
An email to the teams as part of an internal investigation
For his part, Jean-Jacques Bourdin continues to prepare his interviews for the next few days.
Including, in particular, a face-to-face with the Minister of Labour, Employment and Integration Élisabeth Borne this Wednesday.
And Anne Hidalgo the next day for a “Large format”, namely an hour of interview – double the usual time.
“But everyone is now wondering if she is not going to cancel too…” we lament in the corridors.
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In addition, this Wednesday, the BFMTV and RMC teams all received an email from an external firm as part of the opening of an internal investigation.
A message that we obtained and in which is mentioned a "filing of a complaint against one of the Group's employees", without ever mentioning that it is a sexual assault.
"Everyone is obviously aware," says one employee, however.
“It remains however lunar, underlines another.
We have the impression that we do not want to put words to what happened.