A French mayor has actually been jailed for blackmail versus his deputy utilizing a gay sex tape.
Ga ël Perdriau, 50, is implicated of paying EUR50,000 (₤43,000) for video of Gilles Artigues, 57, who is a married dad.
It is declared that he utilized public funds for the video from 2014 of Mr Artigues with a male prostitue in a Parisian hotel.
Perdriau was apprehended as part of the initial examination in addition to 4 others consisting of:
- Chief of personnel Pierre Gauttieri
- Deputy chief of personnel Claire Vocanson
- Deputy mayor Semy Kéfi-Jérôme
- Mr Kéfi-Jérôme’s ex-boyfriend Gilles Rossary-Lenglet
The centre-right Republicans have actually considering that relocated to oust Mr Perdiau, who has actually functioned as mayor considering that 2014 and was re-elected in 2020.
‘While it is up to justice to decide on guilt and Mr Perdriau’ s participation, the Republicans can just condemn the abominable approaches utilized by the mayor of Saint-Etienne,’ the Republicans stated.
The celebration’s basic secretary, Aur élien Pradi é, validated on Twitter that celebration president Christian Jacob has ‘already dismissed him of his national duties’ and ‘will be excluded’.
He included: ‘The mafia actions of Gaël Perdriau are intolerable for our political family as well as for our public life.’
Mr Perdriau, long thought about an increasing star of the Republicans, is implicated of establishing Mr Artigues being recorded getting an ‘erotic massage’ from from a sex employee in a Paris hotel space in 2014.
According to the reports, the criminal suit submitted by Mr Artigues declares the mayor blackmailed the staunch Conservative Catholic for 8 years to avoid him from challenging the mayor.
The shooting was arranged by Mr Rossary-Lengle and Mr Kéfi-Jérome.
Mr Rossary-Lenglet informed MediaPart in August: ‘It was purchased by Ga ël Perdriau, the mayor and his [chief of staff], Pierre Gauttieri.’
When Mr Artigues was welcomed into the hotel space, Mr Kéfi-Jérome provided him a beverage that Mr Artigues thinks was drugged.
Mr Rossary-Lenglet declared he was provided EUR50,000 from Saint-Etienne townhall to acquire the tape.
Mr Artigues ended up being conscious of the tape 18 months after it was shot, Mr Kéfi-Jérome declared.
The education authorities apparently revealed a ‘teaser’ clip to Mr Artigues called: ‘In bed with Gilles Artigues.’
MediaPart launched what it stated were recordings of the mayor with his chief of personnel discussing their participation in the supposed ambush.
In one conference, according to the report, Mr Gauttieri informs Mr Artigues: ‘I’ ve got a video revealing your bottom in the air with a chap. Doesn’ t that stress you?’
He includes, MediaPart reported, that if Mr Artigues informs the authorities, he will send out copies of the tape to all moms and dads and guardians of the school his kids participate in.
The report declares the mayor then can be heard stating: ‘There are other ways of doing it, we are not obliged to spread it publicly.’
‘Once this is on social media, it’ s no longer blackmail, it’s an execution,’ he included, the report includes.
‘When someone says bad things about gays and is seen cavorting with an escort boy, you have in your hands the death sentence of a political adversary,’ Mr Rossary-Lenglet informed France Inter on 8 September.
Mr Perdriau and Mr Gauttieri have actually both rejected any misbehavior.
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