Benalla wants to face the commission of inquiry

In the "JDD", Alexandre Benalla gives new details on his career and his place at the Élysée.
  

After The World and TF1, Alexandre Benalla speaks for the third time in a week, this time in the JDD . He tells about his career at the Madeleine, "a ZUP d'Évreux", at the Élysée. From an observation internship at the Protection of High Personalities (SPHP) at his 15th birthday, working at the presidential palace was a dream, which he realized with the election of Emmanuel Macron.

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Alexandre Benalla still seems dubious about the extent of this affair and throughout the interview, he reiterates his innocence. At best, he claims to be "vigorous", "impulsive but not violent". While the members of the commission of inquiry are exhausted about the list of people to question, many cited the name of Alexander Benalla, the main protagonist in this case.

The journalists of JDD ask him if he intends to appear before the parliamentarians to give his version of the facts. Response: "I have to rest, think, but yes, I rather want to go in. They want explanations, I have something to give them." He also entrusted some of it to JDD .

Despised by the high ranking?

He explains that his atypical career in the Elyos environment – he has not made great schools – has attracted the wrath of several individuals, especially in the midst of the forces of the 'order. The Secretary General of the Unity-SGP police union said at his Senate hearing that "Mr. Benalla was terrorizing the GSPR and was insulting the ranks and guardians of the peace. ". In his interview, Alexandre Benalla in charge of the police in return: "In the high police hierarchy, there are people who manage their interests, their career, and I disturbed," he says.

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Moreover, if the Blues were late on the Champs-Elysees, it is because of the behavior, emanating from him a responsible charged to welcome the victorious football team to the airport. "I pointed out to the gendarmerie colonel that his men were too close to the track – they wanted to take pictures!" – it was the brothel He told me he did not have to obey me It was he who took me down, the result is that it's because of that that the players have fallen behind … "

No news from Macron since July 16th

During the interview, he also repeated his attachment to the President of the Republic and his love for his job: the coordination of Emmanuel Macron's security. If the photos of Alexandre Benalla and Emmanuel Macron together are so numerous, it is because the Mr. Safety of the president accompanied him everywhere, he proclaims: as well with the theater or exhibitions, as with Touquet , in his resident of the Lantern, and even at the Eiffel Tower, for dinner with Donald and Melania Trump.

But Alexandre Benalla also insists that he has not spoken with Emmanuel Macron since July 16, date of the return of the Blues France, two days before the publication of the May 1st video by Le Monde, which gave birth to the scandal.

At the same time, Mr. Security states that the Head of State was aware of the May Day violence and that he had even spoken to him personally in May. "You made a big mistake, it disappointed me, I felt betrayed, you're punished, it's normal, I trust you, but you'll have to badume," Emmanuel Macron slipped.

Licensed because of police videos

Alexandre Benalla also claims in this new interview that he wanted to resign when his hierarchy discovered the video. "I said I was ready to resign, he notes, I was told it was not worth it."

If he was recently dismissed, he wishes to recall that it is because of the video from CCTV cameras, which was transmitted to him by members of the Paris police headquarters, at the time of the revelations of the World. "With the scandal, my sanction appeared too light, they used this motive to cut short.It was the game," he says. As a reminder, three police officers are currently indicted for "having made unauthorized persons access to video-protection images".

If, a priori, Alexandre Benalla no longer works at the Élysée, he is always interested in the political world, even in politics itself. And also reveals having thought of standing in the 2017 parliamentary elections.