Alexandra of Taddeo, the wife of the Russian artist Piotr Pavlenski indicted in the scandal Griveaux, filed a complaint against the owner of the agency Bestimage Michele Marchand, told Agence France-Press from his lawyer.
According to Me Noémie Saïdi-Cottier, Alexandra de Taddeo has decided to lodge a complaint against X and the queen of the tabloids, known as ” Mimi “, for ” violation of the secrecy of the investigation and the statement, concealment of violation of confidentiality and infringement of the secrecy of correspondence by a person agent of the public authority “. She also took advantage of the IGPN, the police of the police, and the human rights Defender.
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The young woman, recipient of the videos of a sexual nature by Benjamin Griveaux which were then disseminated by Piotr Pavlenski and who has also been indicted in this case, ‘intends (…) to obtain information on the conditions of the arrest” of his companion, ” to which the police would have simply invited members of the press “, she says. “She wondered about the role played by Mimi Merchant in this trap, which has directly caused harm by putting it in a scene in a certain log,” she continued.
‘An offence to be extremely serious to the rights of the defence”
The parquet de Paris opened at the end of February a survey on the presence of a photographer during the arrest of Piotr Pavlenski on February 15, and the dissemination of the photographs in Paris Match, for ” violation of professional secrecy “, “concealment of breach of professional secrecy” and ” unauthorized dissemination of images of a person hindered “. The investigations have been entrusted to the IGPN. This inquiry was adopted in the aftermath of the withdrawal of Benjamin Griveaux of the election for Mayor of Paris because of the broadcast of these videos.
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moreover, according to the lawyer, ” the services have not hesitated to transmit to the press, which has published the messages exchanged between Mme de Taddeo, and his lawyer then “, Marie-Alix Canu-Bernard. “These messages were related to the current procedure and were covered by the secrecy of correspondence between a lawyer and his client “, she says. “I’m outraged to see that today our communication with our clients, covered by the obligation of professional secrecy, are knowingly read by the police, retained, disclosed, and then published in the press “, has commented to Me Saïdi-Cottier. “It is an attack extremely serious to the rights of the defence. “
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