Overview
- Perdriau announced on Facebook that he is entering custody, describing the verdict as a “terrible injustice.”
- The Lyon court found four defendants guilty of orchestrating a covert hotel video of a political rival with a prostitute, using it for extortion and paying for it with public funds.
- The court sentenced Perdriau to four years in prison, Samy Kefi-Jérôme and Gilles Rossary Langlet to three years each, and former chief of staff Pierre Gauttieri to two years.
- Kefi-Jérôme and Rossary Langlet have appealed, whereas Gauttieri has not, and Perdriau is appealing a December 1 judgment detailing five years with one suspended plus five years of ineligibility.
- All four face incarceration under a deferred custody order that takes effect even during appeals.