The mayor of Saint-Étienne Gaël Perdriau, mired in a case of sextape blackmail and freshly excluded from the Republicans, announced Thursday on Facebook to file a complaint against his former party for “defamation”.
“The party has just pronounced my exclusion because my name is cited in a legal case after having been smeared by a certain press”, he accuses, saying he is “shocked by the speed of this decision”, taken without it is not heard.
Public insults
“What is the current leadership of this party actually accusing me of? My positions against the drift of the Gaullist party to the identity right? (…) I am saddened to see Les Républicains renouncing the values of justice, first and foremost the presumption of innocence,” he fulminates, announcing that “these excesses” have “led him to file a complaint” against the Republicans but also against Eric Ciotti for “public insults”.
On September 12, the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes had relayed on his Twitter account a publication by Antton Rouget, journalist for Mediapart who revealed the case, in which he broadcast damning wiretaps. “I thank Christian Jacob for having removed from office last November, the ignoble Perdriau when he kept insulting me”, commented then the elected, before adding: “This giver of lessons shows the terrifying face of the worst abjection. »
Gaël Perdriau has stepped down from his duties in the metropolis of Saint-Etienne. On the other hand, he has always refused to resign from the town hall as demanded by the opposition and some discordant voices within the municipal majority.
Source: 20minutes
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