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The political crisis provoked by the Benalla affair is gaining momentum, feeding on the silence of Emmanuel Macron and the progress of the investigation, entrusted Sunday to a judge of instruction for a possible implementation in examination of the former collaborator. In the Assembly, paralyzed by the affair, the constitutional revision was suspended.
Five suspects in total, for whom the public prosecutor's office requested the placement under judicial supervision, must be presented to an examining magistrate during the day. This is Alexandre Benalla, filmed striking or mistreating demonstrators on May 1, and in custody since Friday morning, Vincent Crase, LREM employee at his side during Labor Day, and three police officers suspected to have transmitted to Mr. Benalla images of video-surveillance.
The woman and the man struck the 1st of May asked to be heard later by the investigators.
Whereas the revelations follow one another in this file , especially on the benefits granted to the former 26-year-old employee (from a staff housing Quai Branly to a badge to access the semicircle of the Palais Bourbon), the head of state, confronted with his most serious political crisis since the beginning of the quinquennium, has so far remained silent.
According to the Journal du Dimanche, Emmanuel Macron spoke on the phone to his chargé de mission, fired Friday morning, since the revelations of the World Wednesday night.
While the spokesman of the Elysee Bruno Roger-Petit had said Thursday that he was, after May 1, "removed from office in terms of organizing the security of the President's travel," Mr. Benalla appears on several recent snapshots alongside Mr. Macron or the presidential couple, including July 13 in Giverny (Eure). The Élysée does not make any more communication.
The tenors of the opposition went up to the front to ask the president "accounts", in the words of Laurent Wauquiez (LR). For the leader of the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the case is "the level of Watergate".
But according to the spokesman of the Republic on the march Gabriel Attal, if the president expressed "on this case, there would be commentators everywhere to be indignant about the weight of his potential words on investigations in progress. "It seems that (his word) would interfere," also considers Marc Fesneau, leader of MoDem deputies, interviewed Sunday by France Info.
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The first to give some explanations should be the Minister of the Interior, expected Monday at 10:00 am before the Committee on the Laws of the Assembly, which has the prerogatives investigation. Opposition MPs, who accuse him of lying last Thursday in the Senate, will not fail to put him on the grill.
According to Le Parisien, a crisis lunch was held Saturday around Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee, bringing together Gerard Collomb and Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet.
The latter announced Sunday morning in front of the Assembly the suspension until further notice of the examination of the constitutional revision wanted by Emmanuel Macron, to "resume it later in more serene conditions", as claimed by the opposition
Assembly President François de Rugy (LREM) badured that he would do "everything for the constitutional reform to succeed", but this one, accused of weakening the Parliament, has lead in the wing.
The examination of this text was blocked since Thursday evening by an endless succession of "reminders with the rules" and suspension of session, around which the boss of the group LR Christian Jacob calls the "affair" Macron-Benalla. "
In a tense atmosphere, the opposition again called for the arrival of the Prime Minister in the morning, or "at least" the Secretary of State for Relations with Parliament.
The elected UDI-Agir had already decided not to "participate in this sad spectacle". An unprecedented scene marked the spirits: Hall of the Four Columns Saturday late in the day, the President of the National Rally Marine Le Pen and Christophe Castaner had a sharp altercation, the first lamenting in particular that his "LREM friends refuse" the summon before the commission of inquiry.
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