Artist Piotr Pavlenski returned to correctional for having broadcast an intimate video of Benjamin Griveaux

The Russian artist refugee in France and his partner, Alexandra de Taddeo, will appear before justice for “attack on the intimacy of privacy”. Lawyer Juan Branco benefits from a dismissal.

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The case had provoked the withdrawal of former secretary of state Benjamin Griveaux from the race at the town hall of Paris. She will finally be tried in court. On February 12, 2020, the pornopolitical site put online a video of a man filming, using his phone, masturbating. Relayed on social networks by several personalities, including ex-deputy Joachim Son-Forget or the founder of Doctissimo, Laurent Alexandre, the video is attributed to Benjamin Griveaux by man behind pornopolitics: Piotr Pavlenski, sulfurous Russian artist refugee in France, customary spectacular “performances” – he notably cut a piece of ear or nailed the testicles.

m. Griveaux will admit that it had had a brief epistolary link in 2018, through Instagram, with a student, Alexandra de Taddeo, 28 years old at the time of the facts, to whom he had sent this video. On February 14, the candidate of La République en Marche at the town hall of Paris announced to withdraw his candidacy. “I do not wish to explain myself more, my family and I, when all the blows are now allowed, he explains. No one, basically, should undergo such violence.” It will be the end of the political career of Mr. Griveaux, now passed in the private sector, and who has not responded to our maintenance requests.

Piotr Pavlenski claims to have stolen the video at M Me of Taddeo, who has become his partner, without his knowledge, and having disseminated him in a “political gesture” as much as artistic. He will explain to the world that the artist aims to “disturb the world and blow up the normative codes”, and that he wanted to show “the hypocrisy” of Mr. Griveaux, who spoke of his family during his campaign. The latter files a complaint against the artist and his young companion, who will be questioned dramatically, on February 15, 2020 in Boulogne, under the eye of a photographer from Paris -Match – two police officers were indicted for “violation Professional secrecy “following the broadcasting of the images of the arrest.

” My lover is your enemy “

Two and a half years after the facts, the two investigating judges responsible for the investigation signed, on September 5, a referral order against Piotr Pavlenski and Alexandra de Taddeo, for “attack on the intimacy of the Privacy “and” use, conservation and disclosure of sexual images “. The lawyer and activist Juan Branco, a time advice from Mr. Pavlenski, suspected of complicity with the couple and placed under the status of assisted witness, benefits for his part from a dismissal.

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