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Information makes the headlines of all French media. Alexandre Benalla, a close badociate of Emmanuel Macron, has been placed in custody by the Paris prosecutor's office. The 26-year-old man, deputy chief of the cabinet of the President of the Republic, was filmed, wearing a helmet of the police, hitting a young man already mastered on the ground during a demonstration at the occasion of May 1st. He is targeted for acts of violence in meetings by person in charge of a mission of public service, usurpation of functions, illegal port of insignia reserved to the public authority and complicity of diversion of images issued from a video-protection system
The Elysee Palace indicated that Mr. Benalla would be fired. For many French media, the penalty falls too late and the case leads to a real suspicion against Emmanuel Macron. Press review
"The gorilla was protected"
On Libération.fr Laurent Joffrin does not go to extremes, evoking a "affair d ' State ". "What initially appeared to be a subordinate case of individual brutality committed by an underling becomes a state affair, why because of the lie."
Recalling that Alexander Benalla benefited from an official apartment in an outbuilding of the Elysee, Laurent Joffrin wonders : "the gorilla was not sanctioned, but protected by order of who, if not the president himself? Why this leniency? It is feared to understand: various sources corroborated by other videos shows that Alexander Benalla lived in fact in the intimacy of the presidential couple, that he accompanied the head of state in his official visits but also in his private activities, tennis, skiing or holidays.Why (…) rely on an affidian, even though he is without any real qualification and known for his impulsivity? Because it is a close , which has made so much vices, or who knows too much … Fearsome badumptions … "
" A nauseating climate "
Edwy Plenel writes him that " the Benalla affair evokes a foul-smelling low police and private cabinet climate in the heart of Elysium ". The founder of Médiapart estimates that "this privatization of the presidential security, with its barbouzard excesses, reveals the dark side of Macronian monarchism." According to Mr. Plenel, the Benalla case is "an alert on the drift of this presidency to a power even more without sharing the head of state, in a consular march, with permanent coup de force"
"A terrible mess"
For The Fiagro "the evil is done" . In his editorial, Vincent Trémolet de Villers explains that "the impression that imposes itself is that of a terrible mess (…) Why the devil have worked hard to protect a second-rate collaborator who should have to leave the Elysee Palace for months? "
According to the editor-in-chief of the" Debates and Opinions "pages of Le Figaro, " the constant concern for the restoration of political authority " wanted by the president "shattered" . "All this degrades the exemplarity that Emmanuel Macron claims." The latter must "speak directly to the French to show that we have taken the measure of this fault."
"The old world, rancid, is still there"
the journalist Pascal Riché, of L'Obs these facts show "that there are in the 'castle' nerves with fuzzy status, laden with opaque or otherwise dirty work. time of the barbouzeries orchestrated by the Gaullist SAC.This discovery crack the image of Emmanuel Macron, who has always insisted on the exemplarity and integrity necessary for his function.The presidential communication, so far perfectly smoothed, flew in And we see that the old world, rancid, is still there. "
M. Riché judges that " the manifest attempt to quell the scandal is explosive" . And to wonder: "Why this president, who upon his arrival had not hesitated to fire the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces for a few critical words on the budget of the Defense, has he was unable to get rid of an unstable employee already trailing several pots? Why the Elysee he needed this man, while there is an official service for this, the Security Group of the Presidency of the Republic (GSPR What was the exact relationship between candidate-then-president Macron and this man who followed him as his shadow? By not treating this case as it should have been, the Elysee Palace opened the box of a thousand legitimate questions. , but inevitably embarrbading. "
" Disrupting Disorder "
" This is the first real great political trial for Emmanuel Macron " writes Nicolas Beytout, of L'Opinion ]. "All the ingredients are there to cause trouble, including among the most ardent defenders of the President." This task is all the more showy as it marks a self-proclaimed Republic inflexible on the ethical, intractable on the transparency, uncompromising on probity A "must" of the supposed new way of doing politics. "
Nicolas Beytout reminds that in " every fire departure, and there have been some- Since the beginning of his successful campaign, Emmanuel Macron has reacted without delay and without qualms.This time, it will take more, much more than a heavy statement from the spokesman of the Head of State to circumscribe fire . "
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