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Unknown to the French public until last week, former security chief of President Emmanuel Macron, Alexandre Benalla – filmed "disguised" as a policeman hitting a fallen protester – became the pivot of 39, a state scandal.
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A few days before the release of the videos, Benalla appeared, however, next Macron during the national festivities of July 14 and was seen near the bus that carried the French football team, double world champion, to the honors of the Avenue des Champs-Elysees.
Benalla, who was Macron's chief of staff, was removed from office only on July 20, two days after Le Monde published the videos.
The palace of Elisha called for "new elements" to justify the dismissal: the fact that Benalla collected images of security cameras on the place where the aggression took place – he n & # 39; Had no right to have filmed.
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At the age of 26, the young man born in a poor district of Evreux in Normandy was present at all Macron posts and provided protection for the president and his wife as a family.
According to the French press, this closeness was rarely seen in the case of a civilian suddenly charged with protecting the president, without having a real qualification in the field, according to industry professionals.
"Benalla has more security profile in a nightclub, he has no security technique," said the newspaper Le Parisien a former head of the Security Group of the Presidency (GSPR).
GSPR is the official security team of the president, attached to the Ministry of the Interior. Benalla, with only a private security experience, would have created a parallel team in charge of protecting Macron, which was at the same level as the GSPR, known as the "Alexandre Pack", according to French newspapers.
Benalla joined the Socialist Youth Movement at the age of 19. His family was already a member of the Left Socialist Party in Normandy.
According to some knowledge, he always wanted to be personal security and was fascinated by the film The Bodyguard with Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner, French press reports
Benalla was hired as safety officer for the On the Move! from Macron
Before being called by the Socialist Party in 2012 to work on the security of candidate François Hollande's presidential campaign, Benalla had been the bodyguard of some artists and politicians.
] He also worked only a week for Minister Arnaud Montegourg of the Government of Holland. Benalla, who had been trained as a driver and safety officer, had a traffic accident and wanted to run away, says Montebourg, who fired him immediately.
In 2015, Benalla, a law graduate, was selected a week at the National Institute of Graduate Studies on Security and Justice, held at a military police school.
After Macron announced his bid for the presidency in late 2016, Benalla was hired as a security officer. March, the Macron Festival.
At that time, he wanted to buy rubber bullets and riot shields for the campaign, which was rejected by Em Marcha!
In recent days, several accounts of Benalla's aggressive style have surfaced. He did not hesitate to give severe and virulent orders, even to police chiefs, or to show strength, as when he raised a photographer whom he thought was very close to Macron. – still a candidate at the time. President
In 2017 photo, Benalla and Macron ride a bicycle; security got access to the nearest circle of the French president
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Some newspapers nicknamed him "Rambo" after the release of the videos.
Benalla had a rapid rise and gained several privileges.
Among them, a large functional apartment in the sophisticated Orsay Quay, on the banks of the Seine, where the first staff of the President reside, and a badge to access the Chamber of Deputies in Parliament. His salary was more than 7,000 gross euros
Civilian who became a military police operational reserve member after an accelerated training of a hundred hours, Benalla also received, at the request of the Eliseu Palace, a considerable promotion: was appointed in 2017, lieutenant colonel of the operational reserve, prestigious title that the military career with training in reputed schools in the region gets only after 40 years.
Macron had announced at the beginning of a plan to reform the protection regime of the president, who would be in charge only of the Palace of Eliseu, without police control, which displeases the Ministry of Finance. Interior
Benalla, according to the press, could command one of the president's units.
After suspension, Benalla was seen in the bus carrying the French national football team
According to The Express Benalla's relationship with Macron caused a great surprise inside and outside the palace of Elisha
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Following the release of the videos, Benalla was charged as well as a Macron party official and three police officers suspected of having transmitted to Benalla the video of the security cameras filming the assault from the Parisian square on May 1st.
An inquiry commission was opened in Parliament, which on Monday questioned the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Collomb, and the Secretary of Public Security of Paris. Judicial and administrative inquiries were also opened.
Parliament decided to postpone the analysis of the constitutional reform, defended by the president, after the Benalla scandal. Macron, who has not yet spoken publicly about the case, would have condemned the "shocking behavior" at a meeting on Monday and said that "there will be Meme it no impunity for anyone, "according to the French president. ] BBC News Brazil "/>
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