The Lyon public prosecutor’s office indicated, this Wednesday noon, that the “four police custody in progress, taken on rogatory commission in the context of the so-called file of blackmail at the intimate video of Saint-Etienne”, had been “extended this day” .
Summoned to the Lyon judicial police on Tuesday afternoon, Gaël Perdriau, the mayor of Saint-Etienne spent his first night in police custody, as did the three other protagonists, suspected of being involved to varying degrees in this case.
Last August, Mediapart had revealed that Gilles Artigues, former deputy and political opponent of Gaël Perdriau, had been trapped during a party in Paris in 2014. An evening during which an escort-boy would have been paid to keep him company. Their meeting in a hotel room had also been filmed.
Refusal to resign
If Gaël Perdriau and his former chief of staff Pierre Gautierri are suspected of having put pressure on Gilles Artigues by threatening to broadcast this video, Samy Kéfi-Jérôme, education assistant is suspected of having organized this meeting and shot the images. . It was his ex-companion Gilles Rossary-Lenglet who revealed the affair.
Namely accused by Gilles Artigues, Gaël Perdriau has always claimed his innocence and repeated several times that he would not resign, even in the event of an indictment. He had already been heard in police custody in September.