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Three steps from Emmanuel Macron Alexandre Benalla moves parallel to the new president enthroned in the courtyard of the Louvre Museum in Paris that night May 7 2017 in which France created the head of state.
These three stages – which were repeated hundreds of times in the months that followed and which multiplied during the campaign – became the capital that encumbró this bodyguard, which was then 25.
In a Republic like the French, ridden by monarchical winks, the proximity to the crown generates the power and the warmth of the president's trust, Benalla he climbed so much that It ends up burning.
The man who, until a few months ago, spoke indifferently to gendarmes and police, covered by presidential blast, is now defenestrated, abandoned by his Gold and imputed for justice for beat two demonstrators with violence during the demonstrations of May 1 in Paris
No one can determine the exact role of Benalla in the shadow of ] Macron : some the place like his trusted bodyguard and others like the one charged to create a corps of police officers in the service of his boss.
All this, surrounded by personal complicity that they never hide in public, turning Benalla into something more than any bodyguard
In any case, its brilliant rise and its abrupt fall threaten to eclipse the mandate of the president
Raised in a deprived district of the Norman municipality. Evreux, from an early age, is interested in rugby and martial arts, which combines with his law studies.
Attracted by the office of the bodyguards, he takes his first steps in the protection of the stars. the cinema, up to 19 years postulated to a position of security in the Socialist Party.
Dedicated to the protection of Martine Aubry, then party leader and primary candidate, has so fulfilled his role that he kept him in the payroll to deal with the winner of this internal review, François Hollande
After the victory of the Socialist in 2012, Benalla was hired as escort of Arnaud Montebourg at the Ministry of Industry, where he is remembered as a young man Enthusiastic but with too hot blood.
So, that he caused a traffic accident, which led to his dismissal, an incident that the environment of Benalla attributed to excessive zeal in front of a imprudence of the minister
He takes advantage of these years to deepen his profile and join the reserve of the gendarmerie, a civilian reinforcement related to this military body.
When in July 2016 Macron [1945900] 9] left the executive to launch his own political adventure, the then Minister of the Interior, Bernard Cazeneuve, withdrew the official protection and the future candidate was surrounded by a group of escorts. The first engaged was Benalla
The character did not miss the opportunity and, at the stroke of effective – but not always orthodox – ideas he won the confidence of the future president
"To the police officers who give the bad, "he wrote to his companions in internal messages in these months of campaign, as revealed" The World ", a symptom of his ambition.
A mutual contempt that is repeated at the Elysee where the presence of Benalla ] raised blisters among professionals of the police and gendarmerie for the protection of the president
"The boss is me," he repeated in the corridors of the presidential palace, where he had his own office, official car and salary
The president, trained in private enterprise, appreciated in a manner particular the flexibility that allowed him to have an escort that he could use without compatibility issues.
His status as deputy to the chief of the presidential staff for security matters was, for some, a means of integrating him into the Elysee and, for the time being. others, the sign that his back Macron had planned to found a new protective structure at the Elysee. EFE
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