Alexandre Benalla still in custody, evening session canceled in the National Assembly

The main information to remember:

• The house of Alexander Benalla was raided Saturday morning

• The three policemen suspended Thursday night were placed in custody Saturday morning

• The two alleged victims have been identified and will be heard later [19659007] Gérard Collomb in turmoil

  The soap opera Alexandre Benalla knows new developments. Gerard Collomb will be audition Monday at 10 am by the commission of the Laws of the National Assembly with powers of investigation, announced Saturday its president Yael Braun-Pivet (LREM). This hearing, public and broadcast on television, will allow the Minister of the Interior to explain the conditions of the participation of Alexander Benalla, then deputy chief of the cabinet of the President of the Republic, to the operations of maintenance of the order at the events of May 1 in Paris. But above all, he will certainly be questioned about what he knew or not, as of May 2. According to France Inter, indeed, Gerard Collomb had been warned of the actions of Alexandre Benalla in the aftermath of the May 1st violence. Opposition deputies railed Friday in the Chamber against what they see for the most part as "a state lie."

  >> We told you of these heated exchanges in Parliament in this article.

  Saturday morning on our antenna, the LREM deputy of Val-de-Marne Laurent Saint-Martin took the defense of the Minister of the Interior, whose opposition demands the resignation. For the elected representative of the majority, this only results from the "Pavlovian reflex politician". "Gerard Collomb obviously has its place, Place Beauvau (…) It is an excellent Minister of the Interior," said the one who was the first in the majority to seek harsher sanctions against Alexander Benalla.

  Controversy over an access badge

  "Alexandre Benalla had such a badge (access to the hemicycle of the National Assembly, ndlr ) since July 24 2017 ", said Saturday one of the Vice-Presidents of the Assembly, Marc Le Fur (LR). Information has caused new tensions among MPs. There are "several thousand badges for deputies, officials, collaborators, and a number of staff of the executive, ministers, including the President of the Republic" and he has "always been", replied the President of the Assembly, François de Rugy.

  "We learn that this barbouze, which does not appear in the OJ, comes here with a H badge, that he can enter the hemicycle.In the name of which function, the security of the President of the Republic?" added the head of deputies LR Christian Jacob. At his request, the meeting was suspended in the wake, for half an hour.

  >>> The story of a new day of tension in the Assembly, Saturday, is to read here

  Around 21H30 , the President of the Assembly finally closed the meeting, not considering it useful to multiply the "reminders to the regulation". Debates are expected to resume Sunday at 9:30, but members have already announced they would not return. The co-president of the UDI-Agir-Independents deputies Jean-Christophe Lagarde notably deplored a show "ridiculous and harmful".

  The vice tightens around Alexandre Benalla (and the executive)

  Alexandre Benalla was placed in custody Friday morning in Paris as part of the preliminary investigation opened the day before. Targeted for acts of violence in meetings by person charged with a public service mission, usurpation of functions, illegal wearing of insignia reserved for the public authority and complicity in diverting images from a system of video-protection, it is still heard by investigators Saturday. The investigations were entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) as well as to the Human Crime Suppression Brigade (BRDP).

  On Saturday morning, a search was conducted at the home of Alexandre Benalla, in Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the Hauts-de-Seine. The interested party left this apartment at the beginning of July, when he was awarded a residence on the Quai Branly, in the very chic 7th arrondissement of Paris. Many fuzziness remains on the personality and the meteoric rise of this young man of 26 years. AFP made this infographic, which illustrates this career started early in the security of politics.

  

  In addition, the regional newspaper Paris Normandy reveals, photo to the support, that contrary to what affirmed the entourage of the president of the Republic, Alexander Benalla continued to ensure the close security of the head of the State. He accompanied Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte to Giverny for a private visit to the gardens of Claude Monet on July 13, five days before the revelation of the case.

  "Following the revelations of World we went to check on other clichés if Alexander Benalla did not accompany the president this Friday, July 13. And indeed, we see it a few meters presumably, it can be said that it ensures the close security of the President of the Republic, "said Baptiste Laureau, deputy editor of Paris Normandy at the microphone of Europe 1 Saturday noon. "Or it's incompetence or it's a shameless lie." The communication (of the Élysée) is undermined, it is the proof by the image, "says the journalist.

   Exclusive  @paris_normandie : contrary to what says the  # Elysee  Alexander  #Benalla  still ensured the close security of the President a week ago. He accompanied the couple  #Macron  for a private visit to  #Giverny  https://t.co/syN1qpON31  pic.twitter.com/5Z7o1hzubr 
   - paris_normandie ( @paris_normandie)  20 July 2018 

  For its part, the newspaper Liberation found a photo dating from 14 July where, again, we can see Alexandre Benalla alongside the head of the State.

  New police custody

  In addition to police custody of Alexandre Benalla, Vincent Crase, reservist of the gendarmerie and receptionist for LREM, accompanied him on 1 May. At about 11:00, the Paris prosecutor's office announced that their custody was both extended.

  Saturday morning, Europe 1 also revealed that the three police officers suspended for having transmitted video surveillance images to Alexander Benalla have also been placed in police custody. Information confirmed by the parquet of Paris. These three senior officers, belonging to the Directorate of Public Order and Traffic (DOPC) of the Paris Police Prefecture, were placed in police custody for "diversion of images from a video- protection "and" breach of professional secrecy ". It is the deputy chief of staff, a commissioner present at the time of the facts, the place of Contrescarpe in Paris, and the commander in charge of the relations between the police prefecture and the Elysée.

  Emmanuel Macron's chief of staff, Patrick Strzoda, was heard on Thursday as a witness in this investigation

  The alleged victims identified

  The man and woman targeted by the May Day violence were also identified by the investigators, it was learned Saturday night. They indicated their willingness to be heard later.