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French mayor faces judicial probe over video 'blackmail' of colleague

Gaël Perdriau, the mayor of Saint-Étienne in south-east France, was placed under formal investigation by three investigating judges at Lyon on Thursday April 6th. His former chief of staff and two others also face a judicial probe.

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The right-wing mayor of Saint-Étienne in south-east France, Gaël Perdriau, was placed under formal investigation for alleged blackmail by three investigating judges at Lyon on Thursday April 6th. The investigation centres on claims that one of Perdriau's assistant mayors, centrist Gilles Artigues, was blackmailed for several years over an intimate video of him with another man.

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