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POLICY – If you have recently opened a newspaper, listened to the radio, watched TV or read an info site, you will have heard their name. For ten days it has exploded, the Benalla case is a real soap opera. Various for some, state affair for others, it is the political event of the summer. At a minimum
Whether policemen, men (and women) politicians or characters in the shadows, they have a key role in this issue.
Discover who they are.
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At 26, he is the man by whom the scandal happened. Assistant to the chief of staff of Emmanuel Macron, he won the confidence of the head of state during the presidential campaign during which he ensured his safety. But on May 1, he "betrayed" the President of the Republic by striking a protester while he was observing the event alongside the CRS. The former member of the order service of the PS is then sanctioned by the Elysee who dismissed him two months later after he obtained an illegal copy of video surveillance footage of May 1st. All this, just after the revelation of the case by Le Monde July 18.
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Director of Order and Traffic at the police headquarters, Alain Gibelin caused a sensation during his first hearing at the Assembly. The police officer suggested that Alexander Benalla had attended meetings between 2 and 18 May when he was suspended. But he returned to his statements the next day, insisting he had misunderstood the dates. Contrary to the statements of Alexander Benalla, he denied – during a second hearing – to have been warned of his presence on 1 May as an observer of the demonstration.
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The head of state in this case Benalla the most serious crisis of his quinquennium. Informed of the fault of his collaborator while he was traveling in Australia, Emmanuel Macron validated the first sanction that he continues to judge "proportionate". Putting almost a week to react, the President of the Republic broke the silence in front of the LREM deputies by estimating being "the only person in charge" of this affair. Since then, he has been minimizing it as "a storm in a glbad of water."
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He is the first politician to have been targeted in the Benalla case. For three days, the National Assembly demanded the hearing of the Minister of the Interior otherwise the review of the constitutional reform would be blocked. Despite the announcement of the convocation on Monday, July 23 (it was the first one heard at the Assembly), the text was suspended. During his appearance before the deputies, Gerard Collomb discarded on the police headquarters and on the Elysee Palace concerning the fact that he did not seize justice after May 1st. He also amused the parliamentarians by baduring that he had talked about the Benalla affair "as little as possible" with Emmanuel Macron
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The Senator The Republicans of the Channel is the chairman of the Senate Law Commission. It is for this reason that he directs the commission of inquiry of the upper house. Unanimously welcomed (including by the opposition), the work of senators owe a lot to the former secretary general of the Elysee, time Jacques Chirac (2002-2005). In this case Benalla, the 60-year-old enarque is the incarnation of the Senate, seen as a counter-power. A position he could pursue during the constitutional reform
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The deputy of Yonne (elected for the first time in 2012) is the figurehead of Republicans on this folder. Co-rapporteur of the commission of inquiry of the Assembly, he slammed the door Thursday after denouncing the "parody" and pressure put by the Elysee. Former adviser to Brice Hortefeux and Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysée, the 41-year-old enarque made security issues his specialty. He is since January 2018, Deputy Secretary General of the Republicans.
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Elected Yvelines MP in 2017, the 47-year-old former lawyer was promoted to the prestigious presidency of the Assembly's Law Commission, which worth to be at the head of the commission of inquiry. Bizarre during the law of moralization, she is accused of amateurism as the whole of the majority, she still has not won her stripes completely to The Republic in progress since she did not get to be the rapporteur of the constitutional revision. His management of the commission of inquiry also earns him strong criticism of the opposition which accuses him of being at the orders of the Elysee.
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This is Bruno Roger-Petit, the spokesman of the Elysee who spoke about the presence of Vincent Crase alongside Alexander Benalla May 1 instead of the Contrescarpe . As a Republic employee on the march, he was occasionally mobilized like other reservists by the military command of the Elysee. Accompanying Alexandre Benalla without anyone being informed of his presence, he was seen illegally carrying a weapon. He also indicted, he is still at this stage employed by LREM.
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Comptroller General of the active services of the national police, Laurent Simonin is the one who prepared the visit of Alexander Benalla as observer on May 1st. An IGPN report states that he did not warn his superiors what constitutes misconduct. The one who should have become director of security of the PSG in the fall of 2017 (his appointment was retoquée for ethical issues) committed a second fault after the revelation of the case by Le Monde . It is he who provided the images of CCTV cameras to Alexandre Benalla which earned him an indictment.
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