LIVE. Man and woman struck by Benalla identified, tensions in the Assembly



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The case of Alexandre Benalla, the collaborator of Emmanuel Macron filmed hitting a demonstrator on May 1, is on its third day, and the storm that hits the Elysee is not not close to calm down. Follow our live

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20h – The two victims of Alexander Benalla May 1, soon before the investigators?

Actors in spite of themselves the case Benalla, the two alleged victims of Emmanuel Macron's cabinet member on May 1 was reportedly identified, says "Franceinfo" this Saturday night. Both said they wanted to be heard in the investigation, write our colleagues.

19h30 – Tense exchange in the room of Four-columns between Christophe Castaner and Marine Le Pen

Bargaining between Christophe Castaner delegate LREM, and Marine Le Pen in the room of the Four Columns of the National Assembly. While the exchanges in the hemicycle were very tense all afternoon, the tenors LREM and RN settle their accounts in front of the cameras of the journalists …

"- Your friends of the Republic in march refuses you convene! (…) Go and see the deputies who are waiting to see you!
– Democracy you sit on! "

"Christophe Castaner, however leader of En Marche and Minister of relations with the Parliament, refuses to set foot in hemicycle but delivers its elements of language to journalist! What a shame! The republic of the hijacked! ", continued the elected on Twitter.

6 pm – L Benalla case is an "individual case", according to Nicole Belloubet

Of reminders to the regulation in suspensions of meetings, the debates in the National Assembly, paralyzed by the Benalla affair since Thursday, resembled Saturday to an endless day, but "the government wishes the continuation" of the works, supposed to relate to the constitutional revision.

Shortly after 15 hours, the chaos began again in the hemicycle, where oppositions, of right and left, urged to suspend the discussions until next week. Judging that "some want to take the constitutional text hostage", Minister of Justice Nicole Belloubet, Minister of Justice, affirmed that "no one is fooled" a "political operation to which the government can not help"

"You absolutely want to link two subjects who have no connection, one is an individual case, the other a question of collective interest.The individual case will be treated on Monday at the level of the commission of the Laws and by the judicial investigation ", launched the minister with the oppositions.

After" an intervention which holds the carabistouille ", André Chassaigne requested a suspension of sitting, of right and granted by the president of the Assembly François de Rugy (LREM).

17 h – A badge obtained on request of Patrick Strzoda

The cabinet of François de Rugy indicates that "c 'is on demand of the Chief of Staff of the President of the Republic (Patrick Strzoda, Editor's note) that a badge was awarded to Mr. Benalla in July 2017, in his capacity as an officer in charge of the Chief of Staff of the President of the Republic. "

"The second paragraph of paragraph VI provides that two members of the office of the President of the Republic may be admitted in the halls of access to the hemicycle and in the stands above each entry in the Chamber. This limit is understood as the number of people who can be present at a given moment. The General Secretariat of the National Assembly thus allocates a quota of badges to the President's office as well as to the members of the Cabinet of Ministers. Are we also at the "Obs". "This badge was deactivated yesterday as soon as Mr. Benalla ceased his functions in the cabinet of the president", it is specified.

16 h – Alexandre Benalla had a very high level access badge in the National Assembly

But what could Alexandre Benalla do in the corridors of the National Assembly – where Emmanuel Macron is never? was revealed in full Assembly this Saturday afternoon by the MP of the Côtes-d'Armor LR, Marc Le Fur, while the rumor had won the ranks of deputies from the beginning of the day:

"He (Alexander Benalla, Ed.) Had such a badge since July 24, 201 7. This badge was removed 3 days ago. It would not have been useless to inform us. Mr. Benalla did not have political functions, or those who have such a badge do politics because they access the Hemicycle. They do not do security, they do politics. These are the badges of the highest level. "

"This badge was immediately deactivated when Mr. Benalla was removed from office," said François de Rugy, Speaker of the National Assembly from the perch. [19659024A"half-dozen"membersofEmmanuelMacron'scabinetwouldhavebenefitedfromtheseaccessfacilitiesalsosaidFrançoisdeRugywhosaidhewantedtoavoida"uselesscontroversy"TheLRgroupaskedforasuspensionaftertherevelationofthisinformation

Alexandre Benalla had an access badge of very high level in the National Assembly

13h30 – New photos contradict the Elysee

Thursday, Bruno Roger-Petit, the spokesman of the Elysee Palace, assured that Alexandre Benalla – already covered by the most "serious sanction ever pronounced against a chargé de mission working at the Elysee" – had been "removed from his duties as head of the security of travel of the President of the Republic."

version undermined since the publication of new photos by "Libération" and "Paris Normandie", showing the official accompanying very closely the Head of State, July 13 and 14.

13h – Alexandre Benalla was to be married … today

Alexandre Benalla, the former chargé de mission of the Elysée placed in custody since Friday, was to be married this Saturday at the town hall of Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the Hauts-de-Seine, according to information from BFMTV and M6. The ceremony was canceled. An evening was planned in a large private restaurant in the 16th arrondissement of Paris where a number of personalities were invited, according to M6.

12h30 – Mélenchon: "This case is of the Watergate level." [19659006InaninterviewhegivestoLeMondeJean-LucMélenchondenouncesthecrisismanagementofEmmanuelMacron:

"Emmanuel Macron obviously He never knew nor managed a political crisis of his life, nor in as a mayor, neither as a parliamentarian nor as a minister, he reacted as if the state were a business: he laid off three department heads and thought everything was settled. to last. "

11h20 – The police custody of Alexandre Benalla and Vincent Crase prolonged

The police custody of Alexandre Benalla and Vincent Crase, which began Friday, were extended on Saturday morning for up to 24 hours, indicated the parquet of Paris.

Alexandre Benalla, collaborator of the president Emmanuel Macron whose dismissal was announced Friday, had been filmed on May 1 in Paris hitting demonstrators while he was present as an observer with the forces of the 'order. Vincent Crase, an employee of La République en marche, was then with him. They were placed in custody notably for violence and usurpation of office.

11h – The Gendre (LREM) asks if the "oppositions want to block the institutions"

Gilles Le Gendre, spokesperson of the MEPs LREM, wondered Saturday on France Inter if the "oppositions want to block or not the institutions", while the Assembly is paralyzed by the case Benalla .

The elected of Paris denounced an "attempt of our opposition for 48 hours to exploit this case". And he says that "nothing will be smothered in this case."

Since Friday the oppositions, who wished a parliamentary commission of inquiry, "block any possibility for this commission to do its work", which "proves well that their motives are of a different order ", according to him.

According to Gilles Le Gendre, also vice-president of the majority group, the oppositions" still have not digested the stinging defeat "in the urns there a year ago

"We have to get back to work," he pleaded, asking: "Do our oppositions want to block the institutions or not?"

"It hurts a lot for the France, "added the MP, while the constitutional revision is bogged down. "She will see the day" even if "we take an unfortunate delay," he assured.

Among some in opposition, Mr. Le Gendre said he felt a "will to go on vacation as much as that of to make political obstruction. "

10:20 – The home of Alexander Benalla raided

The home in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine) of Alexandre Benalla was raided this Saturday morning. Alexandre Benalla was taken into custody on Friday morning. It is still there

10h – Collomb auditioned Monday at 10:00 am in the Assembly

The Minister of the Interior Gerard Collomb will be audition Monday at 10am in the framework of the Benalla case by the commission of the Laws of the National Assembly endowed with powers of investigation, announced Saturday its president Yael Braun-Pivet (LREM).

Audition, public and retransmitted, of Mr. Collomb "will take place Monday morning" with 10:00, has Ms. Braun-Pivet said at the meeting of the commission responsible for developing a program of hearings. The majority group LREM, by the voice of Marie Guevenoux, has also accepted the publicity of the other upcoming hearings, with exceptions in particular on issues of "state security".

The committee voted in favor of almost unanimously the principle of this advertisement.

"The majority loose on advertising auditions, seeing finally how much the opacity of the work is harmful.The majority was fortunately framed tonight," reacted Philippe Gosselin (LR) in a tweet

For Ugo Bernalicis (LFI), "in the face of pressure from public opinion and the political pressure of oppositions, the majority has yielded and we welcome it."

9:50 – Les three policemen suspended were placed in police custody

The three policemen suspended for having transmitted video-surveillance images to Alexandre Benalla, the collaborator of Emmanuel Macron filmed hitting a demonstrator on May 1, were placed e n custody on Saturday morning, announced the prosecutor of Paris.

These three men were placed in custody for "diversion of images from a video-protection system" and "breach of professional secrecy" .

The three senior officers involved belong to the Directorate of Public Order and Traffic (DOPC) of the Paris Police Prefecture. This is the deputy chief of staff, a commissioner present at the time of the facts, Place de la Contrescarpe in Paris, and the commander in charge of relations between the police headquarters and the Elysee, reported several sources close to the file.

According to the police headquarters, video-surveillance images were "improperly communicated to a third party on the evening of 18 July". It was precisely on Wednesday night that this affair was revealed by the newspaper Le Monde.

9h30 – "A parliamentary inquiry into facts concerning the Elysee Palace is exceptional"

The deputies seized of the Benalla case. The National Assembly's Law Committee voted unanimously on Thursday (July 19th) to appoint a commission of inquiry to shed light on the violent acts of Alexandre Benalla, filmed in the process of raping two civilians on 1 er-M last. MEPs now have one month to investigate and hear the experts and actors of the crisis.

What scope and powers will the commission have? Explanations of Jean Garrigues, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Orleans and Chair of the Committee on Parliamentary and Political History.

9h – First failure for the inquiry commission of the National Assembly

New unpublished day of paralysis Friday, July 20 at the Assembly, with a draft constitutional revision victim collateral of the case Benalla – right and left claiming first to hear Edouard Philippe – and a commission of inquiry which could not begin its work .

8h – "The Rambo" and "the mutique" of the Elysée

Despite the announcement by the Elysée of the dismissal of Alexander Benalla placed in police custody on Friday, the controversy continues and the press Saturday 21 July castigates "the Rambo" and "the mutique" of the Elysee Palace and demands explanations from the Head of State.

 L'Observateur

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