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Photo dated December 13, 2016 showing Emmanuel Macron (C), at the time presidential candidate, preceded by his bodyguard Alexandre Benalla (D), in a Bordeaux bookstore / AFP / Archives
The case Alexandre Benalla, collaborator of the French presidency dismissed after violence on May 1, continues to occupy center stage in France: suspects presented Sunday to an examining magistrate, hearing the Minister of the Interior Monday, and opposition in
The arrest of the five suspects, including that of Alexandre Benalla, was lifted Saturday night in the investigation of the violence committed on May 1 in Paris. They will be presented Sunday to an examining magistrate, announced the parquet floor.
In spite of his dismissal announced Friday, the Elysée did not succeed in defusing the crisis born of the disclosure Wednesday of videos showing this close of the chief of the state hit protesters during Labor Day, wearing police badges, while he was present as a simple observer to the police
Interior Minister Gérard Collomb will have to explain to the deputies what he knows about this affair: he will be auditioned Monday at 10:00 am (0800 GMT) by the commission of the Laws of the National Assembly, endowed with powers of inquiry, announced Saturday its president Yael Braun-Pivet ( LREM, Presidential Majority.)
Alexandre Benalla (g) accompanies President Emmanuel Macron during the paradeJuly 14 in Paris / POOL / AFP / Archives
In addition, the woman and the man struck by Alexandre Benalla, during the demonstrations of May 1, asked to be heard later by the investigators.
The opposition on all sides suspects the executive of wanting to stifle the scandal, right and extreme right demanding that the president Emmanuel Macron himself explain.
The Élysée, quickly informed of the actions of Benalla, the had laid off in May for 15 days, without seizing justice, Alexandre Benalla, 26, even obtaining in July a home office in a dependency of the Elysee.
But the story was unveiled Wednesday by the daily Le Monde, provoking all the more indignation that the president had been the champion of an "exemplary Republic" during his election campaign.
" We seek to camouflage a state affair behind a very late dismissal procedure, "denounced in an interview in Figaro the boss of the right-wing opposition Laurent Wauquiez (The Republicans). "Emmanuel Macron will be accountable to the French," he added.
"If Macron can not be explained, the Benalla affair will become the Macron affair," said the president of the National Gathering ( extreme right) Marine Le Pen, in a tweet
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The leader of the radical left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, judged him that the case was "of the level of Watergate", also accusing the president of "organizing (r) a personal militia".
Emmanuel Macron remained silent on this matter. A silence that "could have been justified in the context of a practice maintained the rare word", but this presidency has become "talkative", notes the editorialist Le Figaro, according to which "the Macron presidency is in any case tainted"
Interior Minister Gerard Collomb in June 2017 / AFP / Archives
The Links of the Head of the State with the one who was Mr security of the Elysee, former assistant to the chief of staff of the presidency, were at the center of the Unes of the dailies Saturday: Alexandre Benalla, "the protégé of the palace" announces Libération, the "advisor too special" title Le Parisien.
Many questions arose over the past two days about the privileges granted to him. Saturday LR deputies have asked "what Elysee authority" had asked Benalla the badge he had held for a year allowing him to access the National Assembly – off Friday.
Before being lifted, his custody was extended on Saturday morning, like that of a reservist Constable Vincent Crase, employee of the presidential party, who was with him on May 1, said the Paris prosecutor.
Both had been placed in custody Friday especially for violence and usurpation of function.
Alexandre Benalla's home in Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, was also searched on Saturday morning. Issy where his wedding was to be celebrated this Saturday, according to a source at the town hall.
And the three high-ranking police officers suspended for having transmitted to him Wednesday evening video-surveillance images, were in turn placed in custody Saturday morning, before it gets up in the evening.
In addition to the preliminary investigation of the justice, opened Thursday on the initiative of the parquet floor of Paris, another, administrative, was launched by the "police of the police" and a third by the National Assembly. 19659027] afp
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