Overview

• The trial opens Monday at the tribunal correctionnel de Lyon for a five-day hearing with Perdriau and six co-defendants.
• Perdriau is charged with criminal association, blackmail and misappropriation of public funds.
• The alleged scheme targeted former first deputy Gilles Artigues using a secretly recorded video said to have been filmed in 2015.
• Investigators cite two €20,000 subsidies, including one to France–Lettonie–Loire–Auvergne, as funding used to pay participants in the operation.
• The mayor faces up to 10 years in prison, a €1 million fine and potential ineligibility from office, and he continues to proclaim his innocence.