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Paris – French Minister of the Interior Gerard Collomb is auditioned Monday morning at the Assembly on the Benalla affair, an appointment that promises to be electric even though President Emmanuel Macron has badured that he there would be no "impunity" after the indictment of his former advisor for "violence".
Videos showing Alexandre Benalla, a close aide to the head of state, striking and mistreating demonstrators on May 1 in Paris while accompanying the police as " observer ", have plunged since last week the executive in its worst crisis.
The 26-year-old adviser – whose dismissal was announced Friday -, the employee of LREM (ed., The formation of the head of state) Vincent Crase, with him on this Labor Day, and three high-ranking officers Police suspected of transmitting to Mr. Benalla video surveillance footage of the incident were indicted Sunday evening.
The police prefect Michel Delpuech must be auditioned at the Assembly Monday at 12:00 GMT.
While the silence of Emmanuel Macron on this case was more and more strongly denounced, his entourage announced in the evening that the head of state judge " unacceptable " the alleged facts to Mr. Benalla and promises that there will be " no impunity ".
The president, who will speak publicly " when he deems it useful ", asked the secretary general of the Elysee to " lead the reorganization to prevent such a malfunction reproduce ", after a crisis meeting at the Elysee gathering several members of the government, including Gérard Collomb.
Heard from 0800 GMT by the commission of the Laws of the Assembly which turned into an inquiry commission, the Minister of the Interior, called for the resignation by personalities of right and left, will have answer a series of sensitive questions.
Why did the government's number 2, who was aware of the facts as early as May 2, react earlier, grabbing the " police font " or justice? ? The opposition accuses the power of wanting to smother the affair.
The security of the president is the responsibility of the Security Group of the Presidency of the Republic (GSPR), dependent on the National Police. So what was the role of Alexandre Benalla in relation to the GSPR?
And what was his role until these last days? The spokesman of the Elysee Bruno Roger-Petit had said Thursday that he was, after May 1, laid off for 15 days and " removed from office in matters of security organization. displacements of the president ". However, he appears on several recent shots alongside Mr. Macron or the presidential couple.
At the hearing of Gérard Collomb, " many questions will have to be asked, many answers will have to be found ," warned the co-rapporteur, Guillaume Larrivé (right opposition).
The minister will also Tuesday before the Senate commission of inquiry, which could also hear on Wednesday the chief of staff of the President of the Republic Patrick Strzoda, according to parliamentary sources.
– The Paralyzed Assembly –
In parallel with the administrative inquiry and the parliamentary inquiry, judicial investigations made progress this weekend.
Alexandre Benalla was indicted Sunday especially for " violence meeting ", " interference in the exercise of public office ", " public port and without the right of regulated insignia ", and" hijacking of images from a video-protection system ".
Vincent Crase was also indicted for " meeting violence ", " interfering in the exercise of a public office ", and also for " prohibited port of category B weapon ".
The judicial review imposed on them prohibits them from holding a public office or public service mission, holding a weapon and coming into contact with other protagonists of the case.
Already suspended, the three police officers of the accused Paris police headquarters were also indicted, for " diversion of images from a video-protection system " and " breach of professional secrecy ".
The case finally upset the political agenda and paralyzed the Assembly: the review of the constitutional revision had to be suspended until further notice in the face of the chaos provoked in the hemicycle by this scandal.
Voices are raised to demand now a pure and simple withdrawal of the reform, while " the counter-powers are more than ever necessary ", according to Daniel Fasquelle (LR).
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