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The mayor of Saint-Etienne, Gaël Perdriau, definitively excluded from the Republicans

2022-10-11T19:23:03.099Z


Implicated in a sextape blackmail scandal, the city councilor was unanimously expelled. An expected decision following an exclusion procedure launched on September 13.


The mayor of Saint-Etienne, Gaël Perdriau, implicated in a sextape blackmail scandal, was definitively excluded Tuesday, October 11 from the Republicans, we learned from the party.

Gaël Perdriau was unanimously excluded during a political office of LR, we learned from the same source, confirming information from Progress.

This decision is without surprise, the party having launched the procedure for the exclusion of the 50-year-old mayor on September 13 after a series of revelations from Mediapart on a sextape blackmail

The fall of Gaël Perdiau

The city of 175,000 inhabitants has been agitated since the end of August by this affair, at the heart of a judicial investigation after a complaint for blackmail by the former centrist first deputy, Gilles Artigues.

The scandal prompted Gaël Perdriau to dismiss his chief of staff and then to renounce his representative functions in the city and the Metropolis, while one of his assistants, accused by name of having shot a compromising video to politically neutralize Gilles Artigues, tendered his resignation.

The three men were placed in police custody in mid-September after the confessions of a former close friend of the town hall on the Mediapart site, accusing the mayor and his entourage of having fomented this "barbouzage de manners" by paying him via benefits. fictitious billed to two cultural associations subsidized by the town hall.

Former vice-president of the Republicans, Gaël Perdriau had already been dismissed from his responsibilities in December 2021 by Christian Jacob, after his comments critical of Valérie Pécresse and Éric Ciotti.

SEE ALSO

- Case of the sextape in Saint-Etienne: the mayor "gave his version of the facts" to the other elected officials

Source: lefigaro

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