Sex, lies and video
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Indicted for “blackmail” of his former first deputy in the sex tape scandal, the Saint-Etienne councilor still presides over the destiny of his commune. An obstinacy denounced even in his majority. In the metropolis, several elected officials intend to express their “wrath” this Sunday, February 4.
The feeling of a broken record. In Saint-Etienne, this Monday, January 29, as a prelude to the first municipal council of the year, each camp repeats its arguments. Like so much wishful thinking. Faced with the opposition – and now a fringe of his majority – who are demanding his departure, Gaël Perdriau appears impassive. Going so far as to claim “give a different light to the fable peddled for months”. The judges will appreciate it. The Saint-Etienne mayor is the subject of three indictments in the intimate video blackmail case of which his former centrist first deputy, Gilles Artigues, was the victim. Excluded from the Republicans after the revelation of the scandal, Perdriau is suspected by the Lyon prosecutor’s office of “blackmail”of “participation in a criminal association” and of “misappropriation of public funds by a holder of public authority”.
This Friday, a new incident unrelated to previous episodes: the elected official from Saint-Etienne is sent back to correctional “defamation” towards the management of an artistic festival, to which the municipality has decided to cut subsidies in 2022. The judgment should have