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After the revelations of the "World" about a Macron collaborator molesting a protester on May 1, the Law Commission decided to give itself the prerogatives of a commission of inquiry to proceed to hearings. [19659002] For a month, the commission will thus acquire the powers of a commission of inquiry to try to shed light on "the events occurred on the occasion of the Paris demonstration of 1 and ] -May 2018. "
#directAN Meeting tonight of the commission of the laws which will ask to seize the prerogatives of commission of inquiry #Benalla
Committee Chair Yael Braun-Pivet (LRM) will be co-rapporteur of this work, along with MP Guillaume Larrivé (LR), to whom will be badociated the committee's bureau, was it decided to unanimously in the evening in the presence of the press
Hearing the Minister of the Interior
The program of hearings – in camera with exceptions – will be set Friday by the committee office, with the objective in particular to hear the Minister of the Interior, Gérard Collomb, from Monday or Tuesday, from a parliamentary source.
The commission, wrote its president Philippe Bas (LR) in a statement, wishes "to hear his explanations on the conditions for the participation of Mr. Alexandre Benalla, then deputy chief of the cabinet of the President of the Republic, in law enforcement operations during the events of 19459006 and 1945 in Paris, as well as on the nature and the institutional framework of the mission he badumed on behalf of the State in co-operation with the security forces "
The President of the Communist, Republican, Citizen and Ecologist Parliamentary Group (CRCE, with a Communist majority), Eliane Assbadi, had earlier asked in a letter to Mr. Bas "in urgency, the hearing by the commission of the laws of Mr. Collomb, to take note of his badysis of the aforementioned facts as well as conditions of intervention of the police ".
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Investigation, profile of the suspect, political reactions … what we know about the Benalla affair
Hearings in the coming days
The decision on a commission of inquiry, demanded since hours by the oppositions, was taken "on the proposal of the President of the National Assembly and in agreement with the presidents of all the groups " at a meeting convened urgently, after several chaotic hours when the Benalla affair parasitized the constitutional debates.
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Benalla case: the opposition denounces a "state scandal" and a "climate of impunity"
As a first step, LRM objected to the requests of the commission of inquiry into the incidents of 1 and -May.
The request to become a commission of inquiry the inquiry, voted by the Committee on the Laws in the evening before the resumption of the debates in the Chamber, "shall be immediately posted and notified to the custody of the seals, to the Government and to the Presidents of the group" according to a communiqué of the presidency
"The commission of the laws will proceed to hearings in the next days, without delay" said François de Rugy (LRM) to the press. "She will probably audition tomorrow" tweeted Philippe Gosselin (LR), seeing "a first step" .
For Richard Ferrand, patron of LRM deputies and close to Emmanuel Macron, "there is no doubt that all the light will be shed on these facts which shocked us" . His MoDem counterpart, Marc Fesneau, hailed an badertion of Parliament's powers.
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Macronist deputies "stunned" by the Benalla affair
The president of the group Republicans (LR), Christian Jacob, hailed "a good decision" in particular because "our police services were infiltrated by people who have nothing to do it ". He nevertheless judged "regrettable that there was no expression of the prime minister before the Assembly" . "It was indispensable for the government to speak here, there are two chambers" considered the co-chairman of the UDI-Agir-Independents MPs, Jean-Christophe Lagarde.
" It is our role to enlighten the French and shed light on what actually happened on 1 and May " emphasized the president of the Socialist Group, Valérie Rabault. "From now on, it is important that the Prime Minister comes to speak in front of the National Assembly, as in the Senate this afternoon, the sitting can only resume its course at the end of this intervention" according to her.
Mélenchon calls for a "motion of censure"
The leader of France insubordinate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, while welcoming a "Act of the Assembly whose importance should not we escape " estimated that " this decision opens a new moment ". Finding "extraordinary that the Minister of the Interior does not come" "democratic decency requires a minister to come and answer" he proposed that deputies table a "motion of censure " Government, which would require 58 signatures.
Since the government does not come to explain to the Assembly, the @FranceInsoumise proposes a motion of censure … https://t.co/m2hss9vjky
Also satisfied with the communist Sebastien Jumel after the revelations on "a close relation to the prince caught in the act of beating opponents of the government" .
Earlier, around 18 hours, Christophe Castaner, Nicole Belloubet, Francois de Rugy, Richard Ferrand and other major tenors, including Marc Fesneau (MoDem) and Yael Braun-Pivet, had held a sort of crisis meeting on the steps of the main courtyard. [19659023] Conciliabule underway between Castaner, Belloubet, Rugy, Ferrand and the cabinet of Edouard Philippe to decide the su … https://t.co/0lZOhsB1dS
Moreover, François de Rugy (LRM) informed the group presidents that the Prime Minister had "committed to transmit to the President of the Assembly the report of the IGPN when it is completed" [19659022] "at the end of next week" according to him. This report will be "immediately transmitted" to the Committee on Laws and Political Groups.
