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Pressure on President Emmanuel Macron intensifies in the case of the sticking of a member of the French presidential office against protesters. The opposition parties asked for clarification of the incidents on Saturday. While Interior Minister Gerard Collomb is to be heard in parliament on Monday, the president remains silent.

16:52, 21 July 2018

In the meantime, police custody of the agent Alexandre Benalla has been extended. The scandal began this week with the release of several videos of the newspaper "The World". It shows how Benalla, 26, strikes violently and beats participants at a rally on May 1 in Paris. He was wearing a police helmet, although he was not a policeman. According to the government, he was allowed to "observe police operations".

On Friday, police seized Benalla and ransacked his home on Saturday morning. The prosecution accuses him, among other things, as a public official used violence and spent as a police officer. An employee of the Macro March Republic party, Vincent Crase, was also taken into custody because he allegedly overstepped his powers during the protests.

In addition, three police officers were arrested and then arrested as part of the investigation. They would have obtained videos of Benalla from surveillance cameras of the city of Paris. Two of them are senior officers of the Paris police

According to the police headquarters, the video surveillance images of May Day demonstrations were "illegally transmitted to third parties on the evening of 18 July" – at moment when "The World" revealed the incident. Interior Minister Collomb strongly condemned the behavior of officials

Collomb must be questioned Monday at the Committee on Legal Affairs of the National Assembly. The hearing will be public and broadcast, announced committee chairman Yael Braun-Pivet. Opposition members called for the resignation of Collomb when he had been aware of the incident and had done nothing.

At the general's office, the Benalla attack went public the day after the demonstration. According to the presidency, in May he was suspended without pay for two weeks and transferred to the administration. Who exactly knew of the incident, initially remained unclear. Benalla would have been back in action since then. It was not until Friday that the presidential office announced that he had been released.

The leader of the conservative opposition, Republicans Laurent Wauquiez, sees an "attempt to disguise a state affair behind a very late release procedure." Conservatives, right-wing populists and leftists in parliament demanded hearings from other senior government officials. Patrick Strzoda, Macron's chief of staff, was questioned Thursday by the investigators

Macron himself, who has not yet commented on the situation, is under enormous pressure. Benalla "will have to answer in court, but Emmanuel Macron will have to answer the French," said opposition leader Wauquiez, the newspaper "Le Figaro".

Macron announced that he was going to bring morality and transparency into scandalous politics, Benalla was responsible for Macron's security during the presidential campaign of last year, and after his election worked at l & # 39; Elysee.