the former chief of staff of Gaël Perdriau imprisoned for failure to pay bail

The former chief of staff of the mayor of Saint Etienne, Pierre Gauttieri, was placed on Monday June 19 in pre-trial detention for “failure to respect his judicial control“, not having paid the deposit set after his indictment on time, we learned from the Lyon prosecutor’s office.

This 54-year-old man, sacked from his post last September in the wake of a sex-tape scandal that has shaken the city for several months, did not pay 30,000 of the 80,000 euros in bail linked to his judicial control, according to the same source.

Judicial review

This Italian of origin had been indicted on April 6 by the heads of “blackmail with execution of the threat», «concealment of property obtained through embezzlement», «embezzlement of public funds by a depositary of public authority», «use, storage or disclosure of a document or recording containing words or images of a sexual nature and obtained by an invasion of privacy“.

At the end of his indictment, he was placed under judicial supervision including in particular the obligation to provide a bond of 80,000 euros, 30,000 euros to be paid before May 5, 2023 and 50,000 before November 30, according to the prosecution of Lyons. On May 11, the investigating magistrates in charge of the case reminded him “this duty», «the latter having paid only 5,000 euros out of the 30,000 euros expected on May 5, 2023“, detailed Nicolas Jacquet, the prosecutor of the Republic of Lyon.

“Daubing of manners”

“Faced with the persistence of the deficiency of the person concerned“, the investigating magistrates seized the judge of freedoms and detention”for the revocation of his judicial review“, which was ordered on Monday with “immediate incarcerationof the indicted, he said. Pierre Gauttieri had been indicted at the same time as the mayor and president of the metropolis of Saint-Étienne, the ex-LR Gaël Perdriau, suspected of “blackmail“, as well as a former municipal deputy Samy Kéfi-Jérôme and the ex-companion of the latter, Gilles Rossary-Lenglet.

The affair broke out at the end of August 2022 when Gilles Rossary-Lenglet revealed to Mediapart the existence of an intimate video shot in January 2015 in which we can see the centrist Gilles Artigues, political rival of Gaël Perdriau, being massaged by a man in a hotel room in Paris. This 50-year-old claimed in his confession to have participated in this “smearing of mannersat the request of the mayor and his entourage, with the aim of politically neutralizing the centrist elected official.