Saint-Étienne. "We've Been Waiting for Him Since the Beginning": the Stéphanois React to Gaël Perdriau's Trial
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The mayor of Saint-Etienne assures that his unspeakable words, captured without his knowledge, do not prove the reality of blackmail against his former deputy, who was also trapped by an intimate video.
Called to the helm this Tuesday, September 23, the mayor of Saint-Etienne, the former-LR Gaël Perdriau denied any plot to trap a rival with a sextape, despite the overwhelming testimony of his former chief of staff and the close questioning of the president of the court that continued this Wednesday. At the helm, the edile appeared combative, giving force to detail in particular on the political climate of the time, or the workings of the munici…


Gaël Perdriau is tried for blackmailing his former deputy Gilles Artigues.
The former chief of staff Pierre Gauttieri presented himself as the one who was in the front line of blackmail at the sextape, while ensuring that Mayor Gaël Perdriau knew everything about the trap, who denounced the "messenges". Everything would have been done behind his back.
Three years after the blackmail affair was revealed to the Saint-Étienne City Hall, the trial has been held since Monday at the Palais de Justice in Lyon. "Finally!" are delighted by the Stéphanois who follow the transcripts of the hearings via the local and national media when others confess to disinteresting completely.
Between the journalists, who came in mass, and the relatives of the defendants and the victim of the kompromat, the former first deputy Gilles Artigues, many Stéphanois follow the hearings of the Perdriau trial. "We need to understand a little more," says one of them.
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