Accusations of “sextape” blackmail in the Senate: Gérard Larcher refers the matter to the public prosecutor. According to the article in Le Canard chainé, a Senate doctor, who is contesting his dismissal, has in fact brought to the attention of management the existence of an intimate video involving "a senator" This “sex tape” would have become, again according to the weekly, “a means of pressure” used by a “medical assistant”.