In the wake of the broadcast of videos and their incredible arrest in Paris, Piotr Pavlenski, 38, and Alexandra de Taddeo, 31, had been indicted on February 18, 2020.
Le Monde with AFP
Two Parisian investigation judges decided on Monday to send Russian artist Piotr Pavlenski and his partner Alexandra de Taddeo on Monday, suspected of having broadcast the ex-nor sexual videos in 2020 of the majority Benjamin Griveaux, according to information communicated, Tuesday, September 6, by a source close to the file to the agency France-Presse and confirmed by Le Monde.
Piotr Pavlenski and Alexandra de Taddeo will appear before the Paris Criminal Court for “infringement of privacy”. They are suspected of having recorded then broadcast these intimate videos on the internet.
The broadcast of these videos had caused a political scandal. But it had also been “very difficult and very violent” for his professional and family life, said Benjamin Griveaux in January 2021 in front of the instructing magistrates. Former Secretary of State and Government spokesperson, he gradually abandoned his political career.
In the wake of the broadcast of videos and their incredible arrest in Paris, Piotr Pavlenski, 38, and Alexandra de Taddeo, 31, had been indicted on February 18, 2020. The Russian artist, political refugee In France since 2017, claimed to have broadcast and made the editing of the videos that Benjamin Griveaux, 44, had sent to Alexandra de Taddeo during their brief relationship, between May and August 2018.
a lawyer out of the way
known for cutting a piece of ear, nailed the testicles on the Red Square in Moscow or having burned the facade of a branch of the Banque de France in Paris in 2017, Piotr Pavlenski had claimed his approach, Presented as artistic and activist, under the slogan “pornopolitique”.
Mounting videos had been published briefly for the first time on a blog on 1 er February 2020, then a second time, with a strong impact, on February 12 on a “pornopolitical” site created by M. Pavlenski.
In their prescription, the judges note that also Piotr Pavlenski that Alexandra de Taddeo have “admitted” to have deliberately recorded these images, M me of Taddeo explaining them as a precaution in order to to “prove” their relationship.
The judges, on the other hand, question the claims of Alexandre de Taddeo according to whom the dissemination of the images “would have been made by his companion without her agreeing, or even without having been informed before “, and rather retain” his direct involvement “in view of” several factual elements “.
According to the opinion of the public prosecutor, the instructing magistrates have definitively put out of the case M e Juan Branco, one of the lawyers of Mr. Pavlenski, although they consider that “he has Presumably played an active role in the broadcast of disputed videos “.