Former LR mayor of Saint-Etienne Gael Perdriau, mired in a case of political extortion through a sexual crime that has rocked his city since September, was once again placed in police custody on Tuesday 4 April by the judicial police of Lyon. Office, confirming information from FranceInfo.
“This is the normal procedure that runs its course.”Pierre Chapel, communications officer for the mayor’s office, told AFP.
sequel after announcement
He was summoned by the judicial police on Tuesday afternoon in Lyon, at the same time as the former chief of staff, Pierre Gutierre, his former deputy, Sami Kave Jerome, and the latter’s former companion, Gilles Rosary Lenglet, to find out the origin of the case. Disclosure by Mediapart. A source close to the investigation confirmed the four sessions to AFP.
‘Your children will not recover’: damn recordings in Saint-Etienne sex racketeering case
The mayor of Saint-Etienne and the president of the Metropole, who was elected in 2014 and re-elected in 2020, has been at the center of a three-month judicial investigation into the shooting and use of a sex video in which we can see his ex. Centrist MP and political rival Gilles Artegis while being massaged by a man in a hotel room, at the end of 2014.
“media bombardment”
Placed in police custody in mid-September and quoted in damning audio recordings, Gilles Artigis accused him that the 50-year-old elected official had always declared his innocence and repeated several times that he would not resign, even in a state of review.
Quickly removed from the LR, Gaël Perdriau retired from his duties, while remaining at the helm of the commune and the city of Saint-Etienne, which nevertheless voted in December in favor of his resignation.
sequel after announcement
In the face of criticism, the mayor has always defended “presumption of innocence” with disapproval a “media bombardment” Connected, according to him, b “hostile politics” Laurent Walkez, LR President of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
The case has already prompted him to dismiss his chief of staff, Pierre Gutierre, while his municipal deputy, Sami Kfi Jerome, who is accused of taking compromising photos, has resigned.
