Fanny Agostini. The ex-presenter of Thalassa is at the origin of the complaint against Jean-Jacques Bourdin for attempted sexual assault. His testimony.
[Mis à jour le 15 février 2022 à 12h33] The name of the woman who filed a complaint for attempted sexual assault against Jean-Jacques Bourdin was not released for several weeks. This Monday, February 14, 2022, Fanny Agostini came out of silence in Mediapart and revealed that she was the source of this complaint. The former presenter of Thalassa, who now works for the show Génération Ushuaïa on TF1, accuses the star interviewer of BFM TV-RMC of having tried to kiss her by force while they were in a swimming pool, during a press trip organized on the occasion of a petanque open in Calvi in 2013. Jean-Jacques Bourdin denied these accusations and did not answer Mediapart’s questions.
Fanny Agostini remembers in the columns of Médiapart from the time when she worked with the star presenter at BFM TV: she affirms that he had “taken a dislike to her” and that his outbursts of anger caused him “abyssal stress” . So much so that she preferred to “record fake live in a cabin” so as not to meet the host. But during the Pétanque open in Calvi, where they are both present, Fanny Agostini affirms that Jean-Jacques Bourdin would have “closed to her”. “My fear changed in nature. I felt targeted, uncomfortable, to the point of not going to dinner afterwards”.
Fanny Agostini then recounts the attempted sexual assault of which she claims to have been the victim: “He began to swim parallel to me, while starting to pay me compliments, to tell me that I had changed, that he didn’t see me like that. I was super uncomfortable, my stomach was tight”. This is where the host would have “grabbed her by the neck” and would have “pulled her towards him suddenly” to kiss her “several times”. The complainant claims to have struggled until she was able to get out of the water. When Jean-Jacques Bourdin tells her “I always get what I want”, Fanny Agostini affirms to the police who took her complaint to be terrified, living this sentence “as a threat from someone who had an ascendant hierarchical on [elle]”.
Fanny Agostini would have been “afraid of losing her job”
Subsequently, Fanny Agostini reveals to have been “shocked, full of shame”, writes Médiapart. To the point that the journalist does not reveal the facts, worried about “losing his job”: “I was told that I had to be very respectful with Bourdin, go in his direction, not hit him. He could do and undo careers”. According to the media, Fanny Agostini only revealed the facts to a few people, including a friend who works at BFM TV. He remembers his testimony well, as he was able to attest in an SMS. He also confirmed this exchange with Médiapart.
Other charges against Bourdin
In the survey published by Mediapart, Fanny Agostini is not the only one to speak out to denounce the actions of Jean-Jacques Bourdin. Sidonie Bonnec (France Bleu) says that the host would have offered to meet her in a villa with a swimming pool, advising her to bring her swimsuit, when it was supposed to be, according to her, an appointment. you to talk about his professional future on the radio. A former RTL trainee says the host told her that she inspired him for “erotic stories” he wrote. On his private Twitter messaging, he would have exchanged “very raw” messages with young women, who would have been consenting.
Fanny Agostini reacts on her Twitter account
After the publication of the Médiapart survey on Monday February 14, Fanny Agostini reacted to the many interview requests she receives on her Twitter account: “To give an answer to the interview requests I receive: I already entrusted everything to Mediapart. I only add that today, I am no longer afraid, that I am not alone – I invite all the women who suffer and have suffered in silence to finally free themselves. Thank you very much for all your posts.”
Born July 8, 1988 in Beaumont in Puy-de-Dôme, Fanny Agostini is a French television and radio journalist best known for having presented the weather report on the continuous news channel BFM TV and for having taken over the animation of Thalassa after the departure of Georges Pernoud on France 3. She also campaigns for ecology and also served as a municipal councilor in La Bourboule, a town in Puy-de-Dôme where she is from.
After studying political science and letters in Clermont-Ferrand in the preparatory class, Fanny Agostini began a career as a journalist with France Bleu Pays d’Auvergne. She then moved to the Paris region where, for two years, she trained as a radio presenter at the Studio Ecole de France (Issy-les-Moulineaux). Graduated in 2009, she joined the NextRadioTV group where she presents the weather and traffic bulletin on both BFM Radio and RMC.
Freshly trained within Météo-France and the National School of Meteorology located in Toulouse, Fanny Agostini moved to the continuous news channel BFM TV from September 2011 where she replaced Philippe Verdier, who left for France 2. She ensures weather reports for the second part of the day from Monday to Friday, whether live or recorded. Thanks to BFM TV, she is becoming a real face of the media landscape. Fanny Agostini took part in the second Open de pétanque de Calvi in 2013, an event where Jean-Jacques Bourdin, another star of BFM TV, was also present. In September 2014, she moved to the morning shows, which were more popular.
Fanny Agostini decides to leave the antenna of BFM TV in 2017. Her last weather report is broadcast on July 12, 2017 after which she sails to France 3 where she takes the presentation of Thalassa, the magazine of the sea that Georges Pernoud had animated during almost 40 years. For the third channel, she also presents another program entitled Premier de cordée, a program shot in the high mountains. Later, in May 2019, Fanny Agostini announced her departure from Thalassa and France 3. She later explained that she had not considered extending her contract. In question ? An editorial line deemed too unambitious for his taste.
In September 2019, Fanny Agostini returns to the airwaves as a columnist on Europe 1. Her post is dedicated to ecology and agriculture and is broadcast live from the educational farm she has set up in Haute-Loire, in Boisset. In 2020, she joined the Ushuaïa TV channel where she presented the program dedicated to the environment En Terre Firme which will then be broadcast in 2021 on TMC. She then arrives in January 2021 on the TF1 antenna with the program Génération Ushuaïa dedicated to ecology.
In 2014, Fanny Agostini became interested in a political destiny within the town of La Bourboule in Puy-de-Dôme. She is indeed a candidate on the list of outgoing mayor Eric Brut (PS). As required by law, it therefore deviates from the antenna of BFM TV during the campaign. With 53.82% of the vote, Eric Brut’s list was elected in the first round. In sixth position on the electoral list, Fanny Agostini sits in La Bourboule as a municipal councilor. However, she officiates without a label.
Since 2015, Fanny Agostini shares the life of Henri Landes. Former advisor in charge of the environment to Claude Bartolone (who sat as President of the National Assembly), he is also a temporary professor at Sciences Po Paris where he teaches a course on sustainable development. Fanny Agostini and Henri Landes were married on June 9, 2018 in La Bourboule, the town where she is from in Puy-de-Dôme. They welcomed a little boy in May 2020.