Samy Kéfi-Jérôme was already indicted for blackmail in this affair. He is suspected of having co-organized a plot to blackmail another deputy, Gilles-Artigues, with an intimate video.
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After a new hearing by the investigating judges, Samy Kéfi-Jérôme, former deputy mayor of Saint-Etienne, was indicted on Tuesday February 6 for participation in a criminal association, in the intimate video blackmail affair. at the town hall of Saint-Etienne, franceinfo learned. Samy Kéfi-Jérôme was already indicted for blackmail in this affair.
The former education deputy at Saint-Étienne town hall is suspected of having co-organized a plot aimed at blackmailing another deputy, Gilles-Artigues, with an intimate video. He resigned from his position at the town hall of Saint-Etienne in September 2022, after being implicated in the affair.
Suspected of having participated in a second part of the affair
Three other people are indicted: the mayor, Gaël Perdriau, his chief of staff, Pierre Gauttieri, and Gilles Rossary-Lenglet, the man who revealed the affair and recognized his own role in Kompromat. Gaël Perdriau is indicted three times, for blackmail, participation in a criminal association with a view to committing blackmail and embezzlement of public funds by a depositary of public authority.
Samy Kéfi-Jérôme is also suspected of having participated in a second part of the affair: blackmail of the same type on a former mayor of Saint-Etienne, Michel Thiollière, revealed again by Médiapart. In this case, he is not indicted, but has been placed under the status of assisted witness, the police-justice service of franceinfo learned, again from corroborating sources.
Contacted by franceinfo, his lawyer, Me Mathias Chichportich, did not wish to comment.