Benalla case: "unacceptable" facts and "no impunity" according to Macron

Emmanuel Macron's collaborator, Alexandre Benalla, and LREM employee Vincent Crase, filmed on May 1, were indicted on Sunday, including for "meeting violence", said the parquet of Paris.

Three policemen, already suspended for having transmitted images of video surveillance to Mr. Benalla, were also put under examination, for "diversion of images resulting from a system of video-protection" and "breach of professional secrecy."

All five were placed under judicial control, according to the prosecution's requisitions, said the same source.

A judicial inquiry had been opened Sunday morning and the investigation entrusted to an investigating judge

MM. Benalla and Crase were filmed striking and mocking protesters on Labor Day in Paris as they accompanied the police as "observers."

Alexandra Benalla, whose the dismissal was announced Friday, is also indicted for "interference in the exercise of a public function", "public port and without right of insignia", "hijacking of images from a system video-protection "and" concealment of breach of professional secrecy "

Vincent Crase is indicted for" interference in the performance of a public function "and" prohibited port of a category B weapon "

The judicial review imposed on them precludes them from performing a public service or public service mission, from detaining a weapon and from coming into contact with other protagonists in the case.

Since Wednesday night, and the revelation by the daily newspaper Le Monde de l'id Entity of the councilor of the Elysee appearing on videos broadcast on social networks, the opposition accuses the power to have tried to smother the affair.

The Elysee acknowledged having known very quickly the actions of Mr. Benalla but had not seized justice.

Already suspended as a precautionary measure, the three policemen, high-ranking officers of the Public Order and Traffic Division (DOPC) of the Paris police headquarters , they also have no right to contact other protagonists of the case.

One of them, Deputy Chief of Staff of the DOPC, is also put under investigation for "complicity in illegal wearing of insignia"

"Unacceptable" facts and "no impunity", according to Macron

French President Emmanuel Macron considers the allegations against his former collaborator Alexandre Benalla "unacceptable" and promises that there will be "no impunity", it was said Sunday evening in his close entourage. "There has been no and there will be no impunity," said the same source. Mr. Benalla, filmed hitting a protester on May 1, has been indicted for "violence in meetings" and "interfering in the exercise of a public service" in particular.