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The case of Benalla, named Emmanuel Macron's collaborator placed in custody for hitting one (or more) demonstrator on May 1, never ceases to ignite the Republic and the political class.
The Elysee announced Friday that he dismissed Alexander Benalla, placed in custody after a video showing him hitting a protester. Neither police nor gendarme, the behavior of this close collaborator Emmanuel Macron has caused indignation and paralyzed the work of Parliament.
His career
Born September 8, 1991 in Evreux, reservist of the gendarmerie, Alexandre Benalla was trained in the service of order of the PS, before being dismissed from his post of chauffeur of the former minister Arnaud Montebourg, for "malpractice", because he wanted to flee after a car accident. He protects Emmanuel Macron during his campaign from December 2016 to May 2017, before being appointed "chargé de mission" at the Elysee, as assistant to the chief of staff of the president, François-Xavier Lauch. He is often seen with the president during various trips, official or private. He was seen in the bus of the Blues Monday, on the Champs-Elysees.
Several journalists, of the AFP or Public Senate, complained of his "muscular" behavior during the campaign. According to L'Express, he was the subject of a complaint of willful violence against a woman in August 2015. According to a source familiar with the matter, he appeared in Nanterre on March 18, 2016 for "voluntary violence resulting in an ITT ( total incapacity for work) greater than 8 days ", but he was relaxed. According to Le Monde, he was lodged since July 9 in an outbuilding of the Elysee, quai Branly. An address where several employees of the presidency, including gendarmes, live.
An open investigation
The Paris public prosecutor's office opened a preliminary investigation for "violence by person charged with a public service mission", "usurpation "and" usurpation of signs reserved for the public authority ". The investigations were entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) as well as to the BRDP.
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In Parliament, the National Assembly launched a commission of inquiry, whose prerogatives were entrusted to the commission of Laws. A similar device is provided to the Committee on the Laws of the Senate, which has already scheduled a hearing Gerard Collomb Tuesday.
Two men in custody
M. Benalla was taken into custody Friday morning in Paris for acts of violence in meetings by person charged with a mission of public service, usurpation of functions, illegal port of badges reserved for the public authority, as well as as a complicity in diverting images from a video-protection system
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Vincent Crase, reservist Gendarmerie and receptionist for LREM who accompanied Alexandre Benalla on May 1, was also placed in custody for violence in meetings by person charged with a mission of public service and usurpation of function. Emmanuel Macron's chief of staff, Patrick Strzoda, was heard on Thursday as a witness in this investigation.
Dismissal for what reason?
M. Benalla is not fired for the violence of May 1 but for receiving video recordings concerning him: he "would have been recipient of a document of the police headquarters that he was not authorized to detain", explains l 'Elysium. Three police officers – a Comptroller General, a commissioner and a commander – were suspended as a precaution for extracting video surveillance footage from the City of Paris and forwarding it to Benalla on Wednesday, according to a source close to
Interior Minister Gerard Collomb has "heavily condemned" the "actions" of these police officers.
What responsibilities and at what level?
Opposition deputies accused Gérard Collomb of "lies" after new press reports that the minister was aware of the attack as of May 2 – unconfirmed information to AFP. They demanded that the minister, or even the Prime Minister, come to explain to the Assembly.
In the midst of turmoil, Emmanuel Macron remained stoic and silent. He received the agricultural unions on Friday morning before having lunch with the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, then to speak with the Minister of the ecological transition Nicolas Hulot.
The Minister of the Interior auditioned Tuesday in the Senate [19659004] The draft constitutional revision found itself collateral victim of the case, oppositions claiming to hear Mr. Collomb before resuming the review of this reform, which is bogged down. The Minister of the Interior will be auditioned Tuesday in the Senate. The deputies of the France Insoumise proposed to vote on a motion of censure of the government.
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The Bureau of the Law Commission, with powers of investigation for the Benalla case, failed to agree Friday evening on a program of hearings, announced its members at the end of a stormy meeting. As a result, the chairman of the Law Commission Yael Braun-Pivet (LREM) decided to convene the commission as a whole Saturday morning at 09H30 to try to find a new agreement.
The majority proposed that Gérard Collomb be heard Monday morning, after a weekend devoted as planned to the debate on the draft constitutional law, while the oppositions demanded that the Minister of the Interior be heard from Saturday morning. It also wished that only the hearing of the Minister be public whereas the oppositions claimed that all the auditions were it (police officers, etc …).
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