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A black goatee, close-cropped hair, eyes devoured by dark circles. On the rare photos available online, the chief of staff of the mayor of Saint-Étienne, Pierre Gauttieri, presents the weary mine of workaholics unaccustomed to being in the light. In recent days, however, the face of this fifty-year-old, a graduate of Sciences-po and a DESS in “military strategy and international relations”, has emerged as one of the key players in the affair of the sextape blackmail which is shaking Saint-Étienne, since the revelation of the scandal by Mediapart, on August 26.