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On the front lines of the Benalla affair, which places the executive at the heart of the storm, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb is summoned to the National Assembly at 10 am on Monday morning. He must explain himself to the Assembly's Committee on Laws, which has investigative powers. Opposition MPs, who accuse him of lying last Thursday before the Senate, will put him on the grill. Gérard Collomb will have to answer to "very numerous questions and of a very great gravity", according to the co-rapporteur Guillaume Larrivé, of the group the Republicans, on the affair of this collaborator of the Elysée filmed Violent demonstrators on May 1st in Paris.
The oppositions denounce the "lies" of the minister and several personalities, right and left, from Nicolas Dupont-Aignan to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, asked the resignation of the minister inside.
By whom was Gerard Collomb informed of the violence committed by Benalla?
Chargé de mission at the Elysee and playing a major role in the security device surrounding Emmanuel Macron, Alexandre Benalla was filmed striking protesters on May 1 in Paris. The Minister of the Interior was aware of these acts as early as May 2 . The ministry confirmed it to the World this weekend. But who informed the minister of the violence committed place de la Contrescarpe, in the fifth arrondissement of the capital? The police headquarters of Paris? The Elysée, who was quickly informed? Or another channel? In an environment that is supposed to be very hierarchical, the question is important.
Why Gerard Collomb did not he react earlier?
In the Senate Thursday, the minister said to seize the IGPN , the "font police", to shed light on this case. That is more than two months after the facts. "We have allowed these images to turn on social networks, which is detrimental to the image of the police" deplores Patrice Ribeiro, secretary general of Synergies Syndicate with AFP. "He has" concealed (e) this information to the national representation and the justice ", offends Benoît Hamon, of the movement Generations.
According to article 40 of the code of penal procedure, the Attorney of the Republic should have been seized for these facts but no member of the executive did so, which makes the opposition say that the power sought to smother the "We live in a hierarchical system. It is not the Minister of the Interior to prosecute a collaborator of the president ", Temper Patrice Ribeiro " There was violence … It was necessary to make an article 40, at less to protect himself " entrusts a cadre of the administration to AFP
What did Benalla do at the demonstration of May 1st?
He was supposed to be only an" observer "on a a law enforcement operation, but he ended up wandering with police armband, police radio and helmet on his head, before attacking demonstrators, along with Vincent Crase, an employee of La République en marche
Who validated their presence on this demonstration? The prefecture of police.But at what level? The Ministry of the Interior knew it? Where did the police material from Alexandre Benalla come from? And why did the police chief of the Direction public order and traffic (DOPC) of the police prefecture intervened to prevent these acts, while he was that day the "referent" of Benalla? "It is difficult to see a major to oppose a councilor of the Elysee", replies a union source.
He is not a graduate at all but seems to have access to everything "- The Secretary General of the Union of Police Commissioners
Several sources also told AFP of the presence of Mr. Benalla at briefings and debriefings of the demonstration of May 1 which was resulted in spectacular violence by Black Blocks. "He is regularly on operational devices and seems to drive different things" strangles David Le Bars, Secretary General of the Union of Commissioners of the National Police (SCPN "He does not graduate at all but seems to have access to everything. Who commissioned him for that? " questions he
After the Minister of Interior expected at 10am, the police prefect Michel Delpuech will be auditioned from 14h
What role did Benalla have at the Élysée?
According to several sources, the former chargé de mission to the chief of staff of the presidency of the Republic, who regularly accompanied Emmanuel Macron on his movements, including after his layoff of 15 days, in view of press photos, also appeared to govern security at the Elysee.
But this mission is normally that of Group of Security of the Presidency of the Republic (GSPR), a structure of the Protection Service (SDLP), dependent on the National Police.The GSPR is headed by a colonel of gendarmerie.
According to police sources, trade unions and internal to the Ministry of the Interior, a reor The organization of the security of the Elysée was in the pipes for the end of 2018, with the creation of a Directorate of Security of the Presidency of the Republic (DSPR) composed of three entities. Alexandre Benalla was expected to occupy a prominent place in this device directly controlled by the presidency.
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