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After the publication of intimate videos, Benjamain Griveaux renounced his candidacy for mayor of Paris in February 2020. Almost three years later, the trial of Alexandra de Taddeo and Piotr Pavlenski opens on Wednesday June 28. Back to a controversial affair.
This is the case that put an end to the political career of Benjamin Griveaux. On February 20, 2020, he announced: “I have decided to withdraw my candidacy for the Parisian municipal election.“ At the time, this renunciation was a surprise, because we are one month away from the election. The reason : intimate videos circulating on social networks. These videos, he had sent them two years earlier to Alexandra de Taddeo. She is the companion of a Russian artist who has taken refuge in France, Piotr Pavlenski. He is the one who posted the pictures.
“An Instrument of Terror”
Today, he and his girlfriend say it was just an art project. For Benjamin Griveaux’s lawyer, art does not justify everything. Master Richard Malka indicates: “Art was never made to humiliate people. It was never meant to be an instrument of terror and Mr. Pavlenski confuses the Stasi with art.” The couple faces two years in prison and a fine of 60,000 euros.