Overview

• Gilles Artigues delivered his first full account in court, describing years of humiliation and saying he once felt like throwing himself under a tram after seeing the video.
• Gaël Perdriau told the court he will step down from his mandates immediately if any culpability is found against him, even if he files an appeal.
• An audio from 2017 was played in which Perdriau is heard threatening exposure of the video; he denies commissioning the operation, says he was bluffing about holding a USB, and disputes that this was blackmail.
• The court heard about a separate, abandoned idea targeting ex-mayor Michel Thiollière with a minor; Thiollière, a civil party, said the scandal left him with a lasting sense of nausea and faulted Perdriau’s response.
• Magistrates probed two €20,000 grants from the mayor’s reserve in 2014–2015 that were routed through associations to a key organizer, with proceedings set to continue into next week before a likely deliberation.