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Withdrawal of Griveaux: who is Piotr Pavlenski, the activist who broadcast the compromising videos?

2020-02-14T10:05:46.894Z


Russian artist Piotr Pavlenski admitted to being the author of the article which posted videos which led to the withdrawal of the candidacy


Benjamin Griveaux announced this Friday morning that he was abandoning the race for mayor of Paris because of "vile attacks" relayed by "a website and social networks".

On Wednesday evening, the site in question broadcast an intimate video and connoted messages addressed to a woman, claiming that they came from the former government spokesman. To motivate this publication, the site claims to denounce "civil servants and political representatives who lie to their voters by imposing Puritanism on society, while they despise it themselves".

An action claimed by a Russian artist

Since January, twelve "articles" have been published, including three devoted to Benjamin Griveaux (the original, one marked "censored" in the title, and a third in the Russian language). These three are signed Piotr Pavlenski, a Russian artist who took refuge in France, in Paris. The latter told Liberation Thursday that he wanted to "denounce the hypocrisy" of the member for Paris.

According to him, the compromising video was given to him by a "source" having had a consented relationship with Benjamin Griveaux. The latter is "someone who constantly relies on family values, who says he wants to be the mayor of families and always cites his wife and children as an example. But it does the opposite, ”sought to justify Pavlenski to Liberation.

Pavlenski, 35, made a name for himself in France for torching the facade of a Banque de France branch, place de la Bastille, in Paris, in October 2017. He was sentenced in January 2019 to three years in prison, including 2 years suspended sentence.

He regularly challenged the Russian authorities: he notably sprayed gasoline and burnt down the doors of the headquarters of the former KGB in Moscow. In 2012, he sewed his lips in support of the Pussy Riot, a group of young women sentenced in Russia to two years in camp for "desecrating" the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.

A site registered in November 2019

The other articles published on this site notably concern Jeffrey Epstein, the priest of the Oise accused of pedophilia and killed last November Roger Matassoli, or Christian Nègre, a former high official of the Ministry of Culture accused of having intoxicated women to urge them to urinate in front of him.

The site was registered on November 23, according to the Whois database. The person who created it lived in Toronto, at an address corresponding to that of a major Internet service group. The email to contact the site is an address @ protonmail.fr, which is encrypted and secure messaging. Suffice to say that the administrator did everything to remain anonymous.

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Not many people had revealed the existence of this site until the post devoted to Benjamin Griveaux was shared on social networks Thursday afternoon, in particular by the deputy (ex-LREM) Joachim Son-Forget.

Source: leparis

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