{"id":40267,"date":"2025-12-02T09:56:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/Saint-Etienne-le-maire-condamne-a-quatre-ans-de-prison-pour-chantage-40267\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:53:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:53:04","slug":"Saint-Etienne-le-maire-condamne-a-quatre-ans-de-prison-pour-chantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/Saint-Etienne-le-maire-condamne-a-quatre-ans-de-prison-pour-chantage\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint-\u00c9tienne : le maire condamn\u00e9 \u00e0 quatre ans de prison pour chantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Le verdict, rendu ce lundi, sanctionne l\u2019utilisation d\u2019une vid\u00e9o intime enregistr\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019insu de l\u2019ancien premier adjoint de la mairie, Gilles Artigues, utilis\u00e9e comme moyen de pression pour limiter ses ambitions politiques. Le tribunal a \u00e9galement prononc\u00e9 une interdiction d\u2019exercer toute fonction publique, marquant un coup d\u2019arr\u00eat d\u00e9finitif \u00e0 la carri\u00e8re politique de l\u2019\u00e9lu.<\/p>\n<p>Selon les juges, Ga\u00ebl Perdriau aurait particip\u00e9 \u00e0 une association de malfaiteurs au sein de l\u2019\u00e9quipe municipale, visant \u00e0 maintenir sa domination politique par des m\u00e9thodes ill\u00e9gales et coercitives. L\u2019affaire a \u00e9galement r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 l\u2019usage d\u00e9tourn\u00e9 de ressources publiques \u00e0 des fins personnelles et politiques.<\/p>\n<p>Le maire a \u00e9t\u00e9 condamn\u00e9 \u00e0 quatre ans de prison ferme, tandis que les peines des autres personnes impliqu\u00e9es, anciens collaborateurs, seront pr\u00e9cis\u00e9es dans les prochains jours.<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019affaire remonte \u00e0 2015, lorsque Gilles Artigues aurait \u00e9t\u00e9 pi\u00e9g\u00e9 et film\u00e9 \u00e0 son insu dans une chambre d\u2019h\u00f4tel \u00e0 Paris, en compagnie d\u2019un escort-boy. Ces enregistrements clandestins ont ensuite servi \u00e0 le contraindre \u00e0 rester fid\u00e8le au maire et \u00e0 renoncer \u00e0 toute ind\u00e9pendance politique. Plusieurs anciens collaborateurs, dont le directeur de cabinet et un adjoint, ont \u00e9t\u00e9 renvoy\u00e9s en correctionnelle avec lui.<\/p>\n<p>Lors du proc\u00e8s, Gilles Artigues a d\u00e9crit cette p\u00e9riode comme un v\u00e9ritable \u00ab cauchemar \u00bb, d\u00e9non\u00e7ant la stigmatisation et le traumatisme provoqu\u00e9s par l\u2019exposition forc\u00e9e de son intimit\u00e9. L\u2019enqu\u00eate a d\u00e9montr\u00e9 que la sextape n\u2019\u00e9tait pas un simple outil de chantage priv\u00e9, mais une op\u00e9ration orchestr\u00e9e au sein de l\u2019\u00e9quipe municipale pour contr\u00f4ler l\u2019adjoint et prot\u00e9ger la domination politique de Ga\u00ebl Perdriau.<\/p>\n<p>Cette affaire a profond\u00e9ment \u00e9branl\u00e9 la classe politique locale et nationale, le maire avant \u00e9t\u00e9 exclu du parti Les R\u00e9publicains d\u00e8s les premi\u00e8res r\u00e9v\u00e9lations en 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c0 sa sortie du tribunal, Ga\u00ebl Perdriau a annonc\u00e9 son intention de faire appel, se d\u00e9clarant \u00ab innocent \u00bb et qualifiant la d\u00e9cision d\u2019\u00ab incompr\u00e9hensible\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-69361 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fr.igihe.com\/IMG\/jpg\/gp-5.jpg\" alt=\"Le maire de Saint-\u00c9tienne, Ga\u00ebl Perdriau, a \u00e9t\u00e9 reconnu coupable de chantage, d\u2019association de malfaiteurs et de d\u00e9tournement de fonds publics par le tribunal de Lyon\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le maire de Saint-\u00c9tienne, Ga\u00ebl Perdriau, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9clar\u00e9 enti\u00e8rement coupable par le tribunal correctionnel de Lyon pour chantage, association de malfaiteurs et d\u00e9tournement de fonds publics, dans une affaire qui avait profond\u00e9ment secou\u00e9 la sc\u00e8ne politique fran\u00e7aise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":4000069360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7529],"tags":[7605],"byline":[7717],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-40267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualite-3","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":7717,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":393}],"contributors":[{"id":7717,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":393}],"featured_image":{"id":4000069360,"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gp_cp-3.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gp_cp-3.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gp_cp-3.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gp_cp-3.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gp_cp-3.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gp_cp-3.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4000069360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40267"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40267"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}