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Faced with an unprecedented crisis, the Elysee announced on Friday that he was firing his collaborator Alexandre Benalla, placed in custody after a video showing him hitting a demonstrator on May 1, without managing to calm the indignation parliamentarians who interrupted their work.
At the end of the day, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe called for "responsibility" for "parliamentary obstruction" and "political recovery", while parliamentarians are calling for to hear on the Benalla case
M. Benalla is not dismissed for the violence of the 1st of May but for having received video recordings concerning him: he "would have been recipient of a document of the prefecture of police which he was not authorized to hold", explains l'Elysée
What document is it? According to a source close to the case, three police officers – a Comptroller General, a commissioner and a commander – were suspended as a precautionary measure for extracting video surveillance footage from the City of Paris and forwarding it on Wednesday to Mr. Benalla
Interior Minister Gerard Collomb, who has "heavily condemned" these actions, must be heard in the Senate Tuesday at 5:45 pm
M. Benalla was taken into custody Friday morning in Paris as part of the preliminary investigation opened the day before the broadcast of a video Wednesday night by Le Monde.
He is targeted for acts of violence in meeting by person in charge of a mission of public service, usurpation of functions, illegal wearing of badges reserved to the public authority and complicity of diversion of images resulting from a video-protection system.
Emmanuel Macron's chief of staff, Patrick Strzoda, was heard Thursday as a witness in the same investigation. He had explained to Le Monde that he had decided on sanctions against Mr. Benalla: two weeks' layoff without pay and change of posting.
Vincent Crase, a reserve policeman and receptionist for LREM who was with Alexandre Benalla May 1, was also placed in custody on Friday
– Silent Macron –
The investigations were entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) as well as to the Police Brigade.
Other investigations will be conducted in Parliament, by the Law Commission of the Assembly, and that of the Senate, which will ask Monday to be endowed with the same prerogatives. 19659002] Videos showing Mr. Benalla, Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Presidency of the Republic and responsible for security, wearing a visor helmet, hitting a young man and a young woman on the 1st -May, have ge A wave of criticism and questions
Indignation has never been so strongly expressed in the political clbad since the May 2017 election to paralyze debates in the Assembly on constitutional reform.
In a great tension, deputies of oppositions accuse Gérard Collomb of "lies", asking that the minister, or even the Prime Minister, come to explain after new press information that Mr. Collomb knew about it as soon as possible. May 2.
Benoît Hamon (Generations) has requested the resignation of Gerard Collomb. The LFI deputies proposed a motion of censure of the government.
In the middle of the turmoil, Emmanuel Macron remained silent, refusing to answer the questions of the journalists. He will work this weekend at the Lantern near Versailles "as usual", according to the Elysée.
– "The real scandal is the Elysee" –
Critics on themes dear to Emmanuel Macron as the authority of the State and exemplarity have not failed.
The power that Mr. Macron "described himself as Jupiterian seems to be freed from the values on which our Republic is based", blasted the president of the RN (ex-FN) Marine Le Pen, for whom this case "highlights the temptation of parallel police."
Given the political and media pressure, the dismissal of Mr. Benalla "was obviously the only one possible outcome, "reacted Friday LREM MP Matthieu Orphelin.
LREM group," many expected that it was settled yesterday, "reports a" walker ", while on the right, the president of LR Laurent Wauquiez in Le Figaro that "this affair marks the end of his speech on the exemplary Republic".
"The real scandal is not Benalla, it's the Elysee, the Elysee who chooses concealment," said Mr. Wauquiez.
Luc Carvounas (PS) felt that "There was a lie by omission" of Mr. Collomb because the policy police had already been seized when the minister had hinted Thursday that it was new.
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