Benalla speaks on TF1: "I never typed, they are vigorous gestures"

Alexandre Benalla spoke on Friday in TF1's 20h daily.

He reiterated that he did not "carry" any blow during his intervention against demonstrators on 1 May in Paris. "I have never typed, they are vigorous gestures but not blows, you have to look at the pictures before: the young man had been hit by a grenade before by a CRS."

His words seem to contradict the images that the revelation by Le Monde, July 18, triggered the most serious crisis suffered by the executive since the election of Emmanuel Macron.

A series of videos shows Mr. Benalla, then deputy chief of staff of the presidency and key man of the security apparatus surrounding the head of state, striking and mocking protesters on Labor Day

"What shocks me is that the media did not broadcast the images from before and the images after, "pleads the young man on TF1:" That is to say the images that cause my reaction and what happens after, at the time of the interpellation. "

"I do not consider that I have committed any wrongdoing under the law, I just consider that I have been confronted with who are criminals, who have committed criminal acts. I had a reaction of citizen who wanted to help to apprehend people who are for me delinquents, "he continues, taking again the arguments developed in an interview granted on Thursday to World .

The President of the Republic has nothing to do with what happened

On his relationship with Emmanuel Macron, Alexandre Benalla badured not to consider himself a close to the President but as a collaborator. "Emmanuel Macron has nothing to do with what happened on May 1st. People try to engage the responsibility of the President of the Republic. "

The former collaborator of the Elysée admits, however, to have committed a" stupidity "that can be seen as a betrayal on the part of a collaborator.

Alexandre Benalla has been indicted for "violence in meetings", and dismissed by the Elysée.

The political repercussions of the case continues after the hearing of many protagonists of the case by commissions of inquiry in the National Assembly and the Senate, two motions of censure will be debated on Tuesday by the deputies.