Benjamin Griveaux, September 21, 2019. - RISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP

The candidate for mayor of Paris for the municipal 2020 withdraws his candidacy this Friday. Implicated in a video of a sexual nature, he denounces "ignoble attacks".

“A website and social networks have relayed despicable attacks endangering my privacy. My family doesn't deserve this. No one, in essence, should never suffer such violence, "he said in a statement recorded at the start of the morning at AFP headquarters, in the presence of BFM Paris.

Benjamin Griveaux, a former government spokesperson, had canceled this Friday his scheduled interviews in various media and his coming to events, according to RTL.

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