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Paris (AFP) – The deadliest scandal of Emmanuel Macron's presidency intensified Saturday with his interior minister in front of a parliament about his response to a senior official Security, Macron, filmed beating a young man Demonstration in Paris in May
Opposition deputies demanded that Macron, who has hitherto kept silent about the situation. incident, explains the position of the government after the videos of his assistant Alexander Benalla emerged this week
"The Benalla affair will become the Macron affair", said the right-wing leader Marine The Pen in a tweet
Laurent Wauquiez, the leader of the Republican party, accused the government of "trying to camouflage a state issue". and Macron had to clarify the question to the French people.
And the leftist leader Jean-Luc Melenchon of the France Unbowed party called it a scandal of Watergate's proportions and accused Macron of "organizing a personal militia". "
Watergate was the name of a scandal of dirty tricks that led to the resignation of former US president Richard Nixon in 1974.
Benalla, 26, was suspended without pay but On Friday, Macron fired his former security assistant, who was detained on suspicion of illegally receiving police surveillance footage to clear his name.
He faces a magistrate on Sunday. , according to Paris prosecutors
Interior Minister Gerard Collomb has been severely criticized, according to some opposition MPs, his work is at stake after the press has learned that he was aware of the violence of Benalla
Collomb will be publicly questioned Monday morning by the Law Commission of the National Assembly.The head of the lower house of parliament announced.
Also Saturday, three police officers were placed in detention suspected of providing surveillance footage to Benalla. They too will go before a magistrate Sunday
– "Violation of professional secrets" –
They have been accused of "misappropriation of images of a video surveillance system", as well as of a "violation of professional secrets". "The Paris police headquarters said that the images were" incorrectly disclosed to a third party on the evening of July 18, "the same night Le Monde newspaper published the video that triggered the scandal
.] This video , filmed on a smartphone, shows Benalla wearing a riot police helmet surrounded by officers, mistreating and hitting a protester at a demonstration on May 1.
In a second video released Thursday by the newspaper, Benalla – who has never been a policeman – is also seen violently fighting a young woman ashore during clashes on a square near Rue Mouffetard, a picturesque street in the fifth arrondissement. [19659016] The three senior officers arrested, who belongs to the Department of Public Order and Traffic of Paris, includes a deputy chief of staff and a commissioner in the 5th district, as well as the commander in charge some R tions between the prefecture and the Elysée, indicated several sources close to the file.
The house of Benalla in the southwestern suburbs of Paris was attacked Saturday.
Vincent Crase, a security agent of the Macon Republic Party in motion and a Benalla associate who also spoke during the May demonstration, was also detained Friday, the Paris prosecutor's office announced that the custody of Benalla and Crase had been extended by 24 hours
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