Macron denounces "unacceptable" facts and ensures "there will be no impunity"

The Head of State is out of his silence, four days after the revelation of the Benalla affair by The World . Emmanuel Macron condemned Sunday evening "unacceptable" facts during a crisis meeting at the Elysee, after the indictments of five men including his former collaborator Alexandre Benalla, causing a political crisis that paralyzes up to the Assembly

According to the Head of State, who will speak publicly "when he deems it useful", "there has been no and there will be no impunity" , reported his close entourage, after a meeting that brought together the Prime Minister, the Minister of the Interior, the government spokesman and the Secretary of State for Relations with Parliament.

the same source, the president asked the secretary general of the Elysee to "lead the reorganization to prevent such a dysfunction occurs again", while Alexandre Benalla, filmed striking or mistreating demonstrators on May 1, was first laid off May before being fired on Friday.

Emmanuel Macron reportedly spoke on the phone to Alexandre Benalla

Alexandre Benalla and LREM employee Vincent Crase, filmed with him during Labor Day, were indicted especially for "violence in meetings". Three police officers, already suspended for transmitting CCTV footage to Alexandre Benalla, have also been indicted, including for "breach of professional secrecy". All five were placed under judicial control, in accordance with the requisitions of the prosecutor's office.

While the revelations follow one another on this file, in particular on the advantages granted to the former employee of 26 years (of a housing of function quai Branly to a badge to access the semicircle of the Palais Bourbon), the head of state, faced with its most serious political crisis since the beginning of the five-year period, had until then remained silent. According to the Diary of the Sunday Emmanuel Macron spoke on the phone to Alexander Benalla since the revelations of World Wednesday evening.

The examination of the constitutional revision suspended until new order

While the Minister of the Interior, Gérard Collomb, must explain this Monday at 10am before the commission Laws of the Assembly, which has the prerogatives of investigation, the Minister Nicole Belloubet announced Sunday morning before the Assembly the suspension until further notice of the examination of the constitutional revision wanted by Emmanuel Macron, to "resume it later in more serene conditions", as demanded opposition

Assembly President François de Rugy (LREM) badured that he would do "everything for the constitutional reform to succeed", but this one, accused of weakening the Par lement, has lead in the wing. "That the president submit his constitutional reform to referendum. It is up to the people to decide their institutions, "said Jean-Luc Mélenchon on BFMTV.

The examination of this text was blocked since Thursday evening by an endless succession of" reminders "and suspension of sitting , around what the boss of the LR group Christian Jacob calls the "Macron-Benalla affair". In a tense atmosphere, the opposition had once again called for the arrival of the Prime Minister in the morning, or "at least" the Secretary of State for Relations with Parliament.