• Summoned by the opposition to resign during the back-to-school municipal council, Gaël Perdriau, the mayor of Saint-Etienne again refused.

  • The chosen one denies being involved in a sextape blackmail case.

  • He presented himself as the victim of a “media lynching” and “a hate campaign”.

At the town hall of Saint-Etienne (Haute-Loire),

Without even a glance in the direction of the television cameras scrutinizing his entry into the municipal council chamber, Gaël Perdriau advanced with a determined step towards his chair, determined to continue his duties at the head of the town hall of Saint-Etienne. .

"Under no circumstances can the city council turn into a court", immediately attacks the elected official, suspected of being involved in a case of sextape blackmail.

At the time of the municipal council back to school, and a month to the day after the revelations of Médiapart, the elected official knew it.

He was expected around the corner.

In the boardroom, the atmosphere quickly becomes electric.

The public curses, sometimes applauds the pikes sent in the direction of the mayor.

“Monsieur Perdriau, leave!

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“Mr. Perdriau, leave, says Lionel Boucher, departmental president of the UDI.

All of France is watching us.

I see only one positive outcome for you, and that is resignation.

"If you like Saint-Etienne, you must renounce all of your functions on your own for the time of the investigation, in turn instructs him Pierrick Courbon, leader of the opposition.

Any other attitude would be an affront.

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But Gaël Perdriau does not break, does not yield an inch.

“Some people don't have the patience to wait for justice.

The temptation is too good to finish a man caught in the media storm, ”he accuses.

And to insist once again: “I have never had or seen this video, I have never used it against the interests of Gilles Artigues which I have always supported.

I have never embezzled a single euro from a community”.

Indignant protests in the courtroom.

“These accusations aim to destroy me and unite the forces that I was able to thwart”, continues Gaël Perdriau denouncing the “hate campaign” carried out against him and the “media lynching” of which he considers himself a victim.

Pressed to answer questions from elected officials, as he had promised at the start of the session, the mayor suddenly turned around.

"I invite you to move on to the first deliberation," he suggests amid the whistles.

Suspension of sitting.

The opposition does not give up and returns to the charge.

Wasted effort.

The mayor still refuses to answer the questions raised and jumps to the next point.

"It's me who decides," he decides before some of the elected officials leave the council room.

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  • Blackmail

  • sextape

  • Saint Etienne

  • Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

  • Lyons