French mayor sentenced to jail for blackmailing political rival with intercourse tape

A French courtroom has sentenced the mayor of Saint-Étienne, Gaël Perdriau, to 4 years in jail for orchestrating a blackmail plot towards a political rival utilizing a secretly recorded intercourse tape. Perdriau was discovered responsible of blackmail, legal conspiracy and misuse of public funds, and was barred from holding public workplace. [/gpt3]