A “Mediapart” survey, published on Friday, had revealed that Gilles Artigues had been trapped and filmed without his knowledge in 2014 when he was in a hotel room with an escort boy.
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A complaint for “aggravated blackmail” was filed on Monday, August 29, by the former first centrist deputy of Saint-Etienne Gilles Artigues against Gaël Perdriau, mayor (Les Républicains, LR) of the City and president of the metropolis .
The complaint – which also aims at the chief of staff of Mr. Perdriau, as well as one of his assistants and the latter’s former companion – was received on Monday morning and the case was disoriented in Lyon on instruction From the General Prosecutor to the Lyon Court of Appeal, said the Public Prosecutor of Saint-Etienne, David Charmatz.
Friday, Mediapart revealed in a long investigation that Gilles Artigues would have been the victim of political blackmail after being trapped and filmed without his knowledge with an escort boy in 2014. would have been orchestrated by Samy Kefi-Jérôme, now assistant to the mayor in charge of schools, and his companion at the time, Gilles Rossary-Lenglet, who revealed behind the scenes in Mediapart.
Gilles Artigues Think of having been drugged
The latter says that during a meeting in Paris dating back to winter 2014, a camera had been installed in a hotel room in the capital. His former partner would have attracted Gilles Artigues and paid an escort before leaving “on tiptoe”. The thirty -minute video he recovers will then be cut and mounted, and will serve to sing Gilles Artigues for several years in order to “put it on a leash”.
Gilles Artigues’s lawyer, Me André Buffard, says he has elements of evidence, including conversations during which his client is threatened to disclose this video to his family. Still according to his lawyer, Mr. Artigues thinks he was drugged that evening: “He knows Mr. Kefi-Jérôme who brought him to his room for a futile pattern and made him drink. He then remembers Not much. “Thinking that no one would believe his version, he did not dare to denounce the facts, until the investigation of Mediapart.
According to the investigation site, the mayor himself and his chief of staff, Pierre Gauttieri, would have learned of this operation and even “mandated Samy [Kefi-Jérôme] to show the short video”. What both deny.
Solicited by Le Monde, Gaël Perdriau said, Saturday August 27, not having seen the content of the video and disputed “any notion of blackmail which would be linked to the decisions that Gilles Artigues recently taken within the municipal team “. Vice-president of the metropolis in charge of housing and housing, Gilles Artigues resigned in May from his function as a first assistant to the town hall of Saint-Etienne, while remaining assistant in the municipal council. Samy Kefi-Jérôme has recognized the existence of this video with Mediapart, but invoked the protection of his “privacy” not to say more.
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