Implicated in Perdriau case, assistant Samy Kéfi-Jérôme announces his resignation

“I deplore the personal attacks which I am the subject of and notes that the conditions of exercise of my functions are no longer met,” said the elected official of 42 years in a press release.

Le Monde with AFP

Samy Kéfi-Jérôme, one of the deputies of the mayor of Saint-Etienne (Les Républicains) implicated in the political blackmail case to the “sextape” that has shaken the city since the end of August, announced on Friday September 23 having resigned from his mandates to the city and the metropolis of Saint-Etienne.

“I presented this morning my resignation of my mandates as a municipal councilor and metropolitan advisor [to the prefect of the Loire] and I informed Mr. Le Maire”, writes the municipal assistant to education in A press release.

In the turmoil since the confessions of a former close to the municipality on a “smearing of mores” dating back to 2015, the mayor Gaël Perdriau (LR) decided Thursday to delegate his representative functions to the metropolis and At the town hall for the sake of return to “serenity”. At the start of the week, the 50 -year -old elected official had already dismissed his chief of staff, also under the fire of criticism because of his alleged role in blackmail.

“a deep injustice”

The case broke out at the end of August when The Mediapart site published the detailed confessions of the former companion of Mr. Kéfi-Jérôme on the set of a compromising video, According to him by the mayor and his entourage to neutralize the former centrist assistant prime, Gilles Artigues. According to him, the operation was paid through fictitious services billed with two cultural associations subsidized by the town hall.

Gaël Perdriau was placed in police custody on September 13, at the same time as his duty -of -the -term, his education assistant and his chief of staff. “I deplore the personal attacks which I am the subject of and notes that the conditions of exercise of my functions are no longer met,” said Samy Kéfi-Jérôme on Friday in its statement, stressing that he lives “as a deep injustice” The accusations targeting him.

The 42-year-old elected official has been at the Saint-Etienne municipal council since 2014, the date of the election of Gaël Perdriau at the head of this city in the open industrial decline. He did not resign from his duties to the regional council but had been suspended, at the end of August, from his functions as delegate for the digital strategy by the president of the region, Laurent Wauquiez (LR).

/Media reports.