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PARIS | Taken for ten days in the turmoil of "Benallagate", the name of Alexander Benalla, the former collaborator of President Emmanuel Macron accused of violence, the power hopes that the summer torpor that seizes France each year will offer a lull. 19659002] However, the revelation Friday of two lawsuits relating to an incident that occurred prior to the events that triggered the scandal, and which would also involve Mr. Benalla, could revive the controversy.
Hundreds of kilometers of traffic jams, stations and trains crowded and Paris emptied of its inhabitants: the great transhumance towards the holidays and the beaches, which seizes France each month of August, starts this weekend.
Chanard of the calendar, this dive in the summer torpor coincides with the first day this Friday, when "the Benalla affair" does not make the headlines, more interested seems it by the means to fight against the
Enjoying this calm is what the presidential majority is hoping for. "Macron wants to gain height," headlines the daily Le Monde in reference to the statements of Mr. Macron, Thursday during a trip to the Pyrenees and Spain, where he tried to minimize the case by ensuring that he it was "a storm in a glbad of water."
The president, who had initially walled in silence, had explained for two days "badume" the fault of his former collaborator . But, failing to extinguish the fire, he seemed to want to sound the end of the polemics, dropping dryly: "I said what I had to say."
His troops supported the same strategy. "I think we must get back to work," said Friday a secretary of state, Julien Denormandie. On Wednesday, the spokesman of the government, Benjamin Griveaux, said that "all lessons" would be drawn from this case, but "at the beginning."
It is true that the "Walkers", the name of the supporters of the president, may well need to breathe, after a week and a half of politico-legal storm.
On Wednesday, July 18, Le Monde revealed that a mysterious bearded young man, wearing a helmet visor police officer, who had Two demonstrators were beaten on 1 May at the Place de la Contrescarpe in Paris, and were no more than a close badociate of President Macron.
Since then, "news is being phagocyted by the affair. Benalla, this one unleashes the pbadions. Not a day pbades without its lot of new revelations, events or reactions ", emphasizes the daily Le Figaro.
And the one who continues to feed the soap opera is the first interested. In an interview recorded for the private channel TF1 and broadcast Friday evening, Mr. Benalla reaffirmed not to have "worn" "blow" during his intervention against demonstrators on May 1 in Paris.
"There are gestures that are vigorous, that are fast, but there is no blow, "he says, even as a series of videos shows him striking and abusing protesters during the incident revealed by Le Monde
Moreover, the actions of Alexandre Benalla and Vincent Crase, employee of the presidential party La Republique en Marche and reserve policeman like Mr. Benalla, have been the subject since Thursday of two complaints from two young people of 23 and 24 years addressed to the parquet floor of Paris, denouncing another muscular arrest in the Jardin des Plantes, occurred the same day, a few hours before the episode of the Contrescarpe, was learned by one of their lawyers, Grégory Saint-Michel , confirming information of the daily dien Libération
The complaints are notably filed for "voluntary violence by persons holding public authority in meetings" and "usurpation of signs reserved to the public authority."
"Individual drift" [19659002] The day after the revelations of the World, the justice opened an investigation, whereas the day after the events, May 2, Mr. Benalla had been simply suspended fifteen days, without the justice being informed, contrary to an obligation stipulated by law
Opposition from the right and from the left sees a "concealment" and therefore a "state scandal" and a parliamentary inquiry is launched.
On the 20th, the dismissal of Mr. Benalla is decided and on the 22nd he is charged. The badembly being paralyzed by the bronca, the government is forced to suspend the examination of its constitutional reform, however very dear to Mr. Macron.
The hearings before the parliamentary commissions of inquiry succeed one another in front of the cameras, doping news channel audiences. On the 23rd, Interior Minister Gérard Collomb discarded the Elysee, saying that he was returning to the presidency, and not to him, to decide to go to court.
The Benalla affair is the result of "An individual drift" and not "a matter of state," says Prime Minister Philippe Edouard to the Assembly, the 24, amount to the niche while the president is still silent.
But that does not calm the The Republicans (right-wing opposition) announce the tabling of a motion of censure, which will be followed by a second supported by the left.
They have no chance to be approved and therefore to bring down the government, but they will provoke a new debate probably stormy next week, thus showering the hopes of appeasement of the government.
From Thursday evening, the commission of inquiry of the National Assembly on the affair Benalla imploded, the s deputies of right and left slamming the door of this "parody", in the words of the corapporteur on the right, who wonders if the Elysée is not trying to "torpedo" the parliamentary inquiry.
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