“Completely sordid”: in Saint-Étienne, the “sextape” blackmail that shakes the municipality

Scandalized, not to say disgusted, the Stéphanois did not mince their words yesterday, market day, with regard to the local political class, after the revelations of Mediapart on Friday, of an intimate video blackmail targeting the former first deputy of their city, Gilles Artigues. The video, shot without his knowledge in a Parisian hotel in the winter of 2014, showing him in the company of a gay escort, had the effect of a bomb in the Forézienne city.