Why the prosecution requires the referral to the courts of the mayor of Saint-Etienne | EUROtoday

The Lyon prosecution requested on Wednesday March 26, the referral to the Criminal Court of Gaël Perdriau, mayor (ex-the Republicans, LR) of Saint-Etienne on Wednesday, March 26, for “blackmail”, “criminal association” and “embezzlement of public funds”. The public prosecutor additionally incriminates Pierre Gauttieri, his former chief of workers, Samy Kéfi-Jérôme, former elected official, and Gilles Rossary-Lenglet, suspected of getting participated within the so-called “Sextape” case, who consisted in trapping Gilles Artigues, former first deputy (Union of Democrats and Independents, UDI) of the mayor, threatening to broadcast an intimate video Hotel room.

“The fundamentally political nature of the object of this blackmail justified (…) that the mayor of Saint-Etienne is necessarily the only one to be able to validate such an operation ”, Esimes Alain Grellet, prosecutor of the Deputy Republic of Lyon, in his final indictment of 38 pages, that The world was able to consult. For the magistrate, Gaël Perdriau also supervised the remuneration of this maneuver, by promoting the short circuit of two subsidies of 20,000 euros, drawn from the budget reserve of the mayor. “The legal accountability of Gaël Perdriau within the financing of this tort operation is in each approach overwhelming”, said the indictment.

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