It was she who would have received the intimate videos that prompted Benjamin Griveaux to withdraw his candidacy for mayor of Paris. Arrested on Saturday evening, the partner of the Russian activist Piotr Pavlenski - who claims the broadcasting of the said videos - was taken into custody for "invasion of privacy" and "broadcasting without the consent of the nobody of images with sexual characters ", indicated Sunday the parquet floor of Paris.
Videos filmed in 2018
This indeed seems linked to the people behind the Griveaux affair. If the level of involvement of the young woman is not yet known at this stage, her police custody tends to suggest that the investigators are exploring the thesis of a trap set for the former LREM candidate.
According to information from BFMTV, this is a young woman of 29 from Metz, who says that she has been in a relationship with the Russian artist and activist since January 2019. Intimate videos by Benjamin Griveaux, of which she would therefore have been the recipient , were filmed in 2018, according to the same source.
The young woman was arrested on Saturday in a hotel in the Paris suburbs with Piotr Pavlenski, accused of having participated in a brawl on the evening of December 31, in an apartment in Paris. She is currently hearing on the merits of this video case, as is her companion.
Active participation ?
The activist's partner is the subject of numerous speculations, the veracity of which it is impossible to verify at this stage. According to Liberation , Piotr Pavlenski and the young woman mentioned by BFMTV co-signed an interview with a pornographic actress on the site "Pornopolitique", the same where the images attributed to Benjamin Griveaux were published.
If it is not yet proven that she herself transmitted the videos to her companion, the lawyer of Benjamin Griveaux, Me Richard Malka said Sunday in the JDD to doubt that Piotr Pavlenski is the only person in charge of the diffusion videos. "The first question is who is behind the dissemination of these images," he said. The investigation will tell if the young woman is involved.