During the municipal council, on Monday, the opposition claimed the resignation of Gaël Perdriau (LR) believing that he had lost “all credibility” after the revelation of a blackmail at the Sextape against his third assistant (UDI) . But he refused to leave his mandate.
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“Ethical fault”, “lost honor”, “broken confidence” … The opposition claimed the resignation of the mayor of Saint-Etienne on all tones, during the municipal council, Monday, September 26. “If you like Saint-Etienne, you must give up all of your municipal and metropolitan executive responsibilities for yourself, since you have lost moral authority to preside over our debates. Any other attitude would be an affront,” said Pierrick Courbon (Socialist Party, PS), as soon as the session overheated.
For the three opposition groups, socialist, communist and ecologist, Gaël Perdriau (Les Républicains, LR) is no longer legitimate to exercise, after the successive revelations of Mediapart on the blackmail exercised for many years on Gilles Artigues, his third deputy (Union of Democrats and Independents, UDI). A judicial investigation is underway to determine the conditions of registration and use of an intimate video, shot without the elected official, in the company of an escort-boy recruited for the occasion. The investigation also relates to subsidies which could have been diverted to remunerate the operation.
For the opposition, the scandal reveals “management by fear”, and questions the role of Pierre Gauttieri, suspected on the one hand active in blackmail. The director of the mayor’s cabinet was seen in the corridors, on the day of the municipal council, while he is officially removed from his duties. Its persistent presence inside the town hall adds to the confusion. Standing, frozen in front of his microphone, the mayor of Saint-Etienne gives the impression of a captain wiping the breaks, shattering dangerously, without wanting to let go of the bar.
no compassion for Gilles Artigues
If he has acted his temporary withdrawal from the presidency of the metropolis, under the pressure of several mayors of the region, and if he announced the cessation of his protocol representations at the municipal level, Gaël Perdriau clings in his mayor’s chair. “The municipal team is at work. The hundred deliberations on the agenda are proof of this if some doubted it,” he poses, opening the Council, while feeling obliged to respond to the suspicions.
“I am not at the initiative of such a business. I have never seen this video. I have never used it against the interests of Gilles Artigues that I have always defended and supported Since 2012. I have never diverted the slightest euro from a community. This skillfully told story aims to destroy me, to unite forces that I have been able to upset, “defends Gilles Perdriau. What forces? The councilor makes mysteries. “Elements of evidence have been given to justice, which shows that the file is infinitely more complex than the dependent version and without contradiction conveyed by a certain press,” he distills, taking refuge behind the secret of the instruction not to say more.
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