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First it was learned that she was being held. Then, the charges: "Invasion in private life" and "dissemination of images of a sexual nature without the agreement of the other person." In the middle of yesterday, the name: Alexandra de Taddeo. It is the third vertex of the triangle that forms with the resigned candidate for mayor of Paris, Benjamin Griveaux, and the Russian artist asylum in France, Piotr Pavlenski. The latter dropped the bomb from a website called Pornopolitique and the political career of President Emmanuel Macron's faithful flew to pieces on Friday.

Many details of the rocambolesco affaire that has caused a political earthquake in France are still unknown. And also what is the motivation of the recipient of the videos in which Griveaux "gives himself to solo sex", as described yesterday by Le Parisien : Pornovenganza or prepared trap?

Because the conversation, via Facebook, it seems, and the images date back to two years ago when Griveaux was a government spokesman. The screenshots, however, would have been made with an iPhone at the end of January.

Pavlenski has reinvindicated its diffusion as a political action in response to what he calls "puritanism." "He is the only candidate who talks about the family. Using his family [posing with his wife and children in Paris Match , for example] is cynical. I don't reveal his sexuality but his contradiction, his lie, his dangerous hypocrisy," he told Libération .

The Russian obtained political asylum in France for his performances against Putin, served a year in prison for a three-year sentence for burning the doors of a branch of the Bank of France. From the first moment, he said he knew the recipient. I was "1,000% sure" of its source. Why? She was his sentimental partner for a year, according to Le Figaro .

"Virtual Relationship"

It is not so clear what kind of relationship the 42-year-old politician and Alexandra de Taddeo, 29, a native of Metz, maintained. Cnews states that "he would have shared an intimate virtual relationship with Griveaux" from which "he would have received several videos of a sexual nature." Before her Linkedin profile was inaccessible, the lawyer said she was studying at the same time a "master in International Governance and Action" in Toulouse and another in "International Public Law" in Paris, while doing a stage at Unesco.

The young woman seemed very interested in Russia: in a radio program she had in Protestant Frequency she had invited a Russian diplomat and a gallery owner and had done a job on Russian Arctic policy. These details are told by Le Figaro . The newspaper, citing "several Internet users" also attributes an interview with a porn actress, made in tandem with her partner Pavlenski and spread on her website pornopolitique.com .

In which several media coincide is in pointing out his presence at the New Year's Eve party in which the Russian artist would have caused minor injuries to two people with a kitchen knife.

This fight was investigated by the police since then. But he only stopped Pavlenski on Saturday, a day after the outbreak of the scandal. Although the police have not specified the sequence, it seems that with the Russian in police station for "voluntary violence with a weapon", Griveaux went to file a complaint for "invasion of privacy." This would have allowed the Prosecutor's Office to open an investigation, prolong the artist's detention and accuse him and his partner for the dissemination of the videos.

"It is true that he should have been arrested before. But it is that if we stopped all the people wanted for such matters, we would not do anything else," a police command in Le Parisien was justified yesterday. Now, as soon as he said that his action was the first of a campaign and that he had more videos, he threw the glove.

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