the mayor of Saint-Étienne, Gaël Perdriau, presented to the investigating judges at the end of his police custody

The mayor of Saint-Étienne, Gaël Perdriau, as well as three other people, are brought Thursday, April 6 in the morning before the investigating judges at the end of their police custody, with a view to a possible indictment in the framework of the case of blackmail to the intimate video targeting his former first deputy, Gilles Artigues, announces the parquet floor of Lyon in a press release.

Gaël Perdriau was placed in police custody on Tuesday April 6 at 3 p.m., as were three other protagonists in this case: his chief of staff Pierre Gauttieri, as well as the two people suspected of having co-organized the plot, Gilles Rossary-Lenglet and Samy Kefi-Jérôme.

Judicial information opened in September 2022

They are suspected of being involved, at different levels, in a sextape blackmail that lasted for years against Gilles Artigues, the former first deputy mayor of Saint-Etienne. The case was revealed by Mediapart on August 26, 2022.

In September 2022, a judicial investigation was opened by the Lyon public prosecutor’s office for “invasion of privacy”, “aggravated blackmail”, “subtraction of public property by a person in charge of a public function”, ” breach of trust” and “concealment of these offences”. These four people had already been taken into police custody in September 2022, then released without being charged.