It is a scandal that has shaken the entire political class. The announcement of Benjamin Griveaux's withdrawal marked a dramatic turning point in the bitter campaign of municipal governments in Paris. The macronist candidate threw in the towel on Friday after the dissemination of intimate videos on social networks.
It all started from a site that broadcast two sextapes and sexually connoted messages addressed to a woman on Wednesday evening, claiming that they came from the former government spokesperson. This platform on which the intimate videos attributed to Benjamin Griveaux were published, was deactivated on Friday around 6 p.m.
"The first porn-political platform"
Still unknown two days ago, the site was created on November 11, 2019, according to specialized platforms. Its purpose was to exhibit "images of a sexual or pornographic nature", involving political representatives who "lie to their voters by imposing Puritanism on society when they despise it themselves. "
In the “About” section, the site administrator also invited “all those who had a story, correspondence, photographs or videos in which civil servants and political representatives act as actors and creators of content to sexual or pornographic character to be contacted for publication on political porn ”.
For the moment, only Benjamin Griveaux has been targeted, but Piotr Pavlenski, the man who said he was behind the publication of the video, said he had videos involving other politicians. This Russian artist, political refugee in France, claims to have "opened the first porn-political platform".
Who is behind this site?
The article attacking Benjamin Griveaux is signed Piotr Pavlenski, but nothing indicates that the latter is also the creator of the website. “The site on which the video was published does not carry any legal mention. According to our information, it is hosted in the United States, "said Malka, lawyer Benjamin Griveaux, at 20 minutes .
The site's original address is geolocated in the United States, but that does not necessarily mean that the person who created the platform resides there. At present, the creator of this site therefore remains unknown, no identity being attached to the domain name, which is also registered with Google.
The site already split on the Internet Archive
The site could have been deactivated by the Wix platform, used for the creation of the site. In its conditions of use, this platform headquartered in Israel specifies in particular "decline any responsibility in the event of pornographic content and / or for any other content of illegal user and / or violating rights. "
The site is therefore today inaccessible, but it would already have been split and archived on the Wayback Machine of Archive.org, indicates the site Nextinpact.com. This American online service keeps copies of any web pages on request, also capturing changes over time. The first recordings date from Thursday, February 13 at 6:55 pm, specifies the site specializing in new technologies.
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