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A week after the revelations of the "World" around the former collaborator of the Elysee Palace, Alexandre Benalla, hearings continued this Wednesday in the Senate and the National Assembly.
After hearing the Minister of the Interior Gérard Collomb the prefect of police Michel Delpuech and Alain Gibelin, the director of the public order of the police prefecture of Paris, [19659004] the commission of inquiry of the Assembly auditioned during the day the general and military commander of the presidency of the Republic, Eric Bio-Farina, and the general director of the national police, Eric Morvan.
Emmanuel Macron is , him, left for the first time of his silence Tuesday evening: "The person in charge is me", declared the chief of the State before his government and deputies of the majority, lashing out at "the Republic of Fuses" and saying that he felt the his collaborator's "acts of May 1" as "a betrayal", according to reports.
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20h15 – Macron to the media: "You said a lot of nonsense" on the Benalla affair
20h – The case Benalla back briefly in the hemicycle of the Assembly
After a lull since Monday, the case Benalla was again invited on Wednesday in the Chamber of the Assembly, Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI) and Christian Jacob (LR) denouncing the conduct of the commission of inquiry, a contract "broken" for the first, a "very serious situation" for the second.
Since the beginning of the week and after several days of blocking, MEPs debate in a relative calm the bill "professional future" led by the Minister of Labor Muriel Pénicaud.
While the commission of inquiry on the case Benalla had just suspended its work in a stormy atmosphere, with a disagreement over the rest of the auditions, Jean-Luc Mél enchon spoke in the Chamber
"We agreed that since a commission of inquiry was constituted, the work could resume normally," said the leader of the Insoumis.
But he pointed "a kind of turnaround" of the commission "for a reason that seems to us to have a relationship with the particular tone" of Emmanuel Macron's speech Tuesday evening before the elected majority. Speech ironically renamed "pot of departure", by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
"There was a roughness of the tone that did not escape us and we find it here (..) so that the commission has cut short" according to the elected Bouches-du-Rhône. "You do not keep your word, so the contract is broken," he said by a majority, asking for a suspension of sitting to discuss with the other group presidents.
The boss of the deputies LR Christian Jacob affirmed that something "happened in a commission of inquiry that is extremely serious".
"Senior officials lied under oath", then the President of the Republic affirmed that he "badumed everything" and that "if some wanted to come and get it, let them come and get it". "I formally ask the president to specify who he is talking about when he says 'they,'" he said. The president "can only be accountable to the people" and not to Parliament "unless we meet in the High Court," continued Christian Jacob, recalling that his group will file a motion of censure of the government.
19h40 – Larrivé: 'The State is being held hostage by a clan'
The co-rapporteur LR of the parliamentary inquiry committee to the Assembly, Guillaume Larrivé, raises the tone against the government and the majority LREM. the BFMTV set, the Yonne deputy accuses the majority party of "locking up" the work of the commission
"What is at stake is the defense of the state. The state is not the property of Emmanuel Macron. […] The state is held hostage by a clan, headed by Emmanuel Macron, who wants to muzzle us. […] The Macron State wants to muzzle the liberties of the French and the institutions. What is happening today in the Assembly is really very serious, the attempt to lock up the parliamentary commission of inquiry is a scandal. "
" The state is being held hostage by a clan, led by Emmanuel Macron ", denounces the co-rapporteur of the commission of inquiry pic.twitter.com/AWT6ETX3FI
– BFMTV (@BFMTV) July 25, 2018
18h20 – Search in progress of the office of Alexander Benalla at the Elysee
A search is underway on Wednesday, July 25 late afternoon of the office of Alexander Benalla at the Elysee Palace, in the presence of the interested party , we learned from the presidency, confirming information from LCI.
17h30 – The Benalla case, "serious" for more than seven in ten French
The case Benalla is considered "serious" by more than seven in ten French and 66% of them wish that Emmanuel Macron "speaks to "In this regard, according to an OpinionWay poll broadcast Wednesday, July 25.
For 46% of respondents, the case involving the former employee of the Elysee is even considered" very serious "," enough serious "for 26%, against 21% for which it is" not serious "and 7% only have" not heard about it. "
Moreover, more than half of the voters of Emmanuel Macron in the first round of the 2017 presidential elections (55%) consider it serious, against 44% of a contrary opinion, according to this survey for LCI.
For 62% of French respondents, this case "concerns as much "Emmanuel Macron than Alexander Benalla, against 31% for which it concerns above all the latter. For 59%, this is "a matter of state", against 34% of a contrary opinion.
Two in three French (66%) want the head of state "to address to the French "on this case, against 27% who do not wish it. The investigation was carried out partially before the intervention Tuesday evening of Emmanuel Macron before the deputies LREM.
The Benalla case has, according to the investigation, a negative impact on the image of Emmanuel Macron . If he knows "to show authority" for 67% (-3 since a previous survey in April) and "knows where he goes" for 54% (-5), they are only 32% to think that "he explains his action well" (-16) and 28% that he "tells the truth to the French" (-11).
Survey conducted online from 24 to 25 July to 1,008 people from 18 years and over, according to the quota method. Margin of error of 1.4 to 3.1 points.
16h15 – Alexandre Benalla actually paid his salary during his layoff
Currently auditioned by senators of the Commission des lois, the Emmanuel Macron's chief of staff, Patrick Strzoda said that Alexander Benalla had received all of his salary in May despite his suspension of fifteen days.
"Alexandre Benalla received his full salary for the month of May, but the 15 days of suspension will be subject to a deduction from the leave entitlements he had in surplus for the year. 2017. "
# DirectSenat Patrick Strzoda:" Mr. #Benalla received his full salary for the month of May, but the 15 days of suspension will be subject to a deduction on the leave entitlements that he had in surplus for the year 2017 "
" It is scandalous ", reacts a senator pic.twitter.com/NvAHTeCmio– Public Senate (@publicsenat) July 25, 2018
"He has many days of leave to which he is entitled.In his balance before dismissal his leave will not be paid," insisted Patrick Strzoda, while the senator Paris environmentalist Esther Benbbada asked him to produce Alexandre Benalla's payslip for the month of May.
Alexandre Benalla's wing amounts to about 6,000 euros net per month, according to a government document sent to AFP.
After taking note of videos showing Alexander Benalla, close collaborator of the Head of State, striking protesters on May 1, Patrick Strzoda had ordered a "temporary exclusion" of 15 days of this officer. "He did not set foot at the Elysee from May 4 to 22," said Patrick Strzoda, questioned on the effectiveness of this sanction.
16h – The majority considers unnecessary to hear other members Macron's cabinet
The majority deems "unnecessary to hear other members of the cabinet of the President of the Republic and the Minister of the Interior", as the opposition LR claims, said the President of the Yaël Braun-Pivet Law Commission at a press conference on Wednesday
"It is obvious that the opposition favors a polemical and political approach", Yaël Mme Braun-Pivet before the meeting of the commission of the Laws which must try to agree on a new list of hearings.
The majority counts on the other hand to request a rehearing of the director of the public order of the police prefecture of Paris, Alain Gibelin, and of the Paris police chief Michel Delpuech, as well as those responsible of the company of CRS 15 which was place of the Contrescarpe on May 1.
15:15 – A hearing of Macron? Griveaux brandishes the "separation of powers"
The spokesman of the government Benjamin Griveaux brandished Wednesday the "separation of powers" to respond to the vote asking for the hearing of the President of the Republic by the commission of inquiry Parliament on the Benalla Affair
"We respect the separation of powers, the executive power will never interfere in the legislative work and in the way in which the legislative work is organized," said Benjamin Griveaux, questioned at the end of the Council of Ministers on this request of Socialist deputies, "rebellious" and Benedict Hamon.
"We are in the Fifth Republic. In the Fifth Republic, there is a separation of powers. the spirit of our institutions, the balance and the separation of powers. "
Asked about a possible presidential intervention" in front of the people ", Benjamin Griveaux evoked a" closed session all open " to qualify the speech of the President Tuesday evening before elected officials and several members of the government gathered in Paris, outside the presence of the press, which AFP has procured the registration.
The remarks were widely reported and the French have "known how to hear the words that the president has used before parliamentarians of the majority," he badured.
The president of the group New Left (PS) in the Assembly Valérie Rabault said he Tuesday evening at the hearing of Emmanuel Macron by the commission of inquiry on the Benalla affair, revealing "contradictions" between the remarks of the president and his chief of staff Patrick Strzoda, thus joining a request of the deputies "unsubmitted" and of Benoît Hamon.
14h30 – Constitution: the oppositions "have won a tactical battle" but the revision will be done
The spokesman of the government Benjamin Griveaux badured Wednesday that despite "the shift" d e review of the constitutional revision in Parliament, due to the case Benalla this revision would be made.
Oppositions "won there a tactical battle, but we will make this revision and we know that they do not want it, they do not want it because (…) in the framework of this revision, there is one element which is that of the reduction of the number of parliamentarians to which our oppositions are fiercely opposed ", said Benjmain Griveaux during the minutes of the Council of Ministers.
13:35 – "All lessons" of the case "will be drawn in September", announces Griveaux
"All the lessons" of the Benalla case will be "drawn in the autumn" and "profound changes will occur," said the spokesman of the government Benjamin Griveaux, after the Council of Ministers. These lessons will be learned "once the dysfunctions have been clearly established", in particular by the secretary general of the Elysee Alexis Kohler, in charge of this mission by the president, he added.
The spokesman The government has also badured that despite the "mismatch" of the review of the constitutional revision in Parliament, due to the Benalla case, this revision would be made. Oppositions "have won a tactical battle, but we will make this revision and we know that they do not want it, do not want it, because (…) as part of this revision, there is an element that is that of the reduction of the number of parliamentarians to which our oppositions are fiercely opposed ", he declared.
13:20 -" Macron did not badume, he confessed ", estimates Di Filippo
En Recognizing his full responsibility in the case of Benalla, Emmanuel Macron "did not badume, he confessed," reacted Wednesday the MP (Republicans) Fabien Di Filippo. "He confessed that he was aware that he was responsible for both the non-transfer to justice and the benefits granted to Benalla", continued the MP for Moselle.
"There is a a very strong hypocrisy behind all this, an attempt to rewrite history by saying, 'There has never been impunity, we have acted', but opinion is not fooled, we expect precise answers. They will not succeed in coming out of this state scandal with elements of language. "
13h – The director of the national police said to have discovered the Benalla affair in" Le Monde "
" I I was informed of Mr. Benalla's presence on the events of May 1 only after reading the newspaper 'Le Monde', I was not in the seemingly restricted circle of those who knew. the General Inspectorate of the National Police) no more, "said Eric Morvan, during his hearing before the Senate Committee of Inquiry.
The violence exercised by the Elysée collaborator is "extremely serious, unacceptable, committed by a young man in my opinion who has lost his pedals, who has had a bit of a headache," said the boss of the the police, who said he "crossed a dozen times" Alexandre Benalla. "I clearly identified him as a collaborator of the Chief of Staff of the Presidency of the Republic."
As for the sanction against Alkexandre Benalla, a 15-day layoff, the police chief claimed that 'he would have taken exactly the same decision' if he had been in the place of the President's chief of staff, Patrick Strzoda. "This is not a lenient punishment," he said.
11:40 – Lionel Lavergne: "Alexander Benalla had no authority over the security services of the presidency"
Heard, the leader of the Security Group of the Presidency of the Republic (GSPR), Lionel Lavergne, said that " Alexander Benalla participated in organizing the president's travel." "He was coordinating the various services involved in organizing these movements, he had no authority over the security services, but in his function there were times when he could give instructions that had consequences. in order to make the devices evolve, it is up to me and my badistants to ensure that they are implemented and commanded. "
"Alexandre Benalla had no authority over the security services.He did not head the GSPR," said Colonel Lavergne.He could give instructions that had consequences to change the device of security. "https://t.co/bgiIUMkf73#directan pic.twitter.com/EhfRDiHTZY
– LCP (@LCP) July 25, 2018
11:20 am – Benalla helping the overflowing police? "It's a joke," says Eric Morvan
Alexandre Benalla defended himself by the voice of his lawyer, saying that he had "lent a hand", on his own initiative, in front of "the apparent overtaking "police officers. An argument that fails to convince Eric Morvan:
"The police are overwhelmed?" It's a joke.When you look at the images, you see many police officers, for the little that I saw, you do not see any object steal, you do not see that the police are particularly feverish ", details the general director of the police
11h10 – Bio-Farina on Benalla:" Everyone in the presidency of the Republic appreciated his services "
Asked about Alexandre Benalla, General Bio-Farina speaks of" an excellent specialist ". He continues: "What he did, he did it well and quickly, often with great anticipation, that I had to know.In terms of the person, he was 26 years old, with some of the flaws of youth, a kind of ardor that may have seemed a bit unbridled, but in any case at the operational level, everyone in the presidency of the Republic appreciated the services rendered by Alexandre Benalla. to do him a great injustice than to deny it here and now. "
11 am – Bio-Farina declares that Alain Gibelin was aware of the fact that Benalla was going to participate on May 1
The general tells that during a lunch a few days before the demonstration of the 1st of May, he saw Alain Gibelin and Alexandre Benalla discuss the equipment that it would bring to the demonstration of May 1.
"That's what I remember", defends Eric Bio-Farina when Naïma Moutchou, MP LaREM, points out that these statements contradict those held yesterday by Alain Gibelin, director of public order and traffic at the Prefecture of Police.
10:50 – Gérard Larcher Macron asks "to express himself in front of the French "
The president LR of the Senate Gérard Larcher points out Wednesday" a little amateurism and panic "in the management of the Benalla affair by the Elysee, asking Emmanuel Macron to "speak in front of the French", the day after the president's speech in front of his majority
"I would have preferred him to address France and the French. It is not in front of the LREM deputies, in the inter-se, that the President of the Republic must speak, but in front of the French of which he draws his legitimacy ", reacted Gérard Larcher in an interview with "Figaro"
10:45 – Nicolas Dupont-Aignan slams the door of the commission of inquiry
To before the speech of General Bio-Farina, Nicolas Dupont- Aignan slammed the door of the commission of inquiry because of the informal speech Tuesday evening, of Emmanuel Macron in front of the only representatives of the majority.
10:35 – Bio-Farina: "Never during his sanction, Mr. Benalla returned to the Elysee Palace"
General Bio Farina badures that "never during his sanction Mr. Benalla did not return to the Elysee Palace. " He adds: "I could no longer reach him by telephone."
Eric Bio-Farina, military commander of the Elysee Palace: "Never during his sanction Mr. Alexander #Benalla did not return to the Elysee Palace, I could not reach him by telephone. " #DirectAN #Benalla pic.twitter.com/VSeJuPY52c
] – LCP (@LCP) 25 July 2018
10:10 – For Bio-Farina, Benalla was "a security facilitator"
General Bio-Farina says he knows Alexandre Benalla in a framework
"I had daily relations with him as part of the preparation and management of events.He had a role in the organization of events, he was at the crossroads of security issues, c was a kind of security facilitator, "says the General.
The General badured that he was not inhaled to see persons promoted within the framework of the specialized reserve, as was the case for Alexander Benalla
– @GLarrive about A. #Benalla : "Is it usual for a non-commissioned officer to be promoted to lieutenant-colonel?"
– E. Bio-Farina: "Yes, the director general of the Gendarmerie can attribute, to temporary title, this level of rank. " #DirectAN #Benalla pic.twitter.com/k3oGRb6jr6– LCP (@LCP) July 25, 2018
10 am – The police chief "clearly identified" the role of Benalla
Questioned by the commission of inquiry in the Senate, the director general of the national police, Eric Morvan, says "to know Mr. Benalla for the to have crossed since [s] took office on August 28th ".
He adds:
"I clearly identified him as a collaborator of the cabinet of the Presidency of the Republic, and I never noticed an attitude on his part that seemed inappropriate. or intrusive, I do not remember having participated in working meetings in his presence. "
9:50 am – Reservists at the Elysee Palace not to "leave the walls" of the palace
General Bio-Farina declares badured before the Commission of Inquiry of the National Assembly that the reservists of the military command of the Elysée do not have to "go out walls "of the palace as part of their reserve missions. To a question from the President asking if it is customary for officers of the military command to participate in the maintenance of order, he replied: "Very clearly, no."
"Is it customary that officers of the military command participate in the maintenance of order? "
" Very clearly, no. ", answers Éric Bio-Farina.
He indicates that," from May 2 or 3 ", he returned Vincent Crase of the Presidential Reserve of the Republic. #directAN pic.twitter.com/rZkAzBw9Wq– LCP (@LCP) July 25, 2018
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