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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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13h30 – New photos contradict the Elysée
Thursday, Bruno Roger-Petit, the spokesman of the Elysee , assured that Alexandre Benalla – already subject to 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."
A 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.
Benalla case: these photos that contradict the Elysee https://t.co/iQ3lrG7ZJ9 pic.twitter.com/22mnK7Nl1G
– Liberation (@libe) July 20, 2018
Exclusive @paris_normandie : contrary to what the # Elysée Alexander #Benalla still assured 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
13h – Alexandre Benalla was to be married … today
Alexandre Benalla, the former chargé de mission of the Elysée placed on guard at sight since Friday, was to be married this Saturday at the town hall of Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the Hauts-de-Seine, according to the information of 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.
12:30 – Melenchon: "This case is the level of Watergate."
In an interview he gives to the world, Jean-Luc Mélenchon denounces the crisis management of Emmanuel Macron:
"Emmanuel Macron obviously He never knew nor managed a political crisis of his life 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. This crisis will 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, The prosecution of Paris.
Alexandre Benalla, collaborator of President Emmanuel Macron whose dismissal was announced Friday, was filmed on May 1 in Paris striking demonstrators while he was present as an observer to 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 function.
11h – The Gendre (LREM) asks if the "oppositions want to block the institutions"
Gilles Le Gendre, porte 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 from Paris has denounced an "attempt of our opposition for 48 hours to exploit this case". And he says that "nothing will be stifled in this case."
Since Friday the oppositions, which wished a parliamentary commission of inquiry, "block any possibility for this commission to do its work", which "proves well that their motivations 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's very bad 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 "desire to go on vacation as much as that of to make political obstruction. "
10h20 – The home of Alexander Benalla raided
The residence 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 in the Assembly
The Minister of the Interior Gerard Collomb will be audition Monday at 10am in the context of the Benalla case by the Committee of the Laws of the National Assembly endowed with investigative powers, announced Saturday its president Yael Braun-Pivet (LREM).
Audition, public and retransmitted, of Mr. Collomb "will take place Monday morning" to 10:00 am, said Mrs Braun-Pivet 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 the publicity of auditions, seeing finally how much the opacity of the works is harmful.The majority was fortunately framed this night", reacted Philippe Gosselin (LR) in a tweet
For Ugo Bernalicis (LFI), "faced with the pressure of 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 custody
The three policemen suspended for having transmitted video-surveillance images to Alexandre Benalla, Emmanuel Macron's collaborator filmed hitting a demonstrator on May 1, have been placed in custody Saturday morning, announced the Paris prosecutor's office.
These three men were placed in custody for "misappropriation 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 case.
According to the police headquarters, video surveillance footage was "improperly communicated to a third party on the evening of July 18th". It was precisely on Wednesday evening that this affair was revealed by the newspaper Le Monde.
9h30 – "A parliamentary inquiry into facts concerning the Elysee Palace is exceptional"
MPs have seized 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 commission of inquiry of the National Assembly
New unpublished day of paralysis Friday, July 20 in the Assembly, with a draft of constitutional revision collateral victim of the case Benalla – right and left claiming before hearing 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, July 21 castigates "the Rambo" and "the mute" of the Elysee Palace and demands explanations from the head of state.
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