Placed in police custody Sunday in the investigation into the dissemination of intimate videos that led Benjamin Griveaux to withdraw his candidacy for mayor of Paris, Piotr Pavlenski remains silent for the moment and has at this stage, no an identified lawyer. According to information from Europe 1, the lawyer who had represented him until then withdrew on Sunday. Piotr Pavlenski was arrested on Saturday afternoon and placed in police custody in another procedure relating to violence committed on December 31, unrelated to the municipal campaign, and for which he was under a warrant. stop.
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Juan Branco would not have been asked
Juan Branco, close to the activist, who had explained on Europe 1 the step of the Russian artist, affirmed Sunday to have been excluded from the file by the parquet floor. "He objects to my representing my client. This is an unprecedented and very serious infringement of the rights of the defense," he said when he left the premises of the judicial police. According to information from Europe 1, this would be inaccurate since the far left lawyer was not sought by the Russian activist.
Procedurally, the prosecution cannot, in any event, take over a lawyer alone. He must seize the president of the bar if he wishes to contest the appointment of a lawyer. Contacted by AFP, the Paris prosecutor's office and the President of Paris did not wish to comment. Juan Branco told AFP that his designation procedure was currently suspended, pending a meeting he must have on Monday with the president.
The partner of Piotr Pavlenski, recipient of the intimate videos in May 2018, is also being heard to determine whether or not she deliberately transmitted the videos to the Russian activist. Hearings can legally last until tomorrow.