Paris: Former Guards of former President Emmanuel Macron continued to be tried on Monday for attacking two people during the 2018 protest while posing as a police officer, in an event that caused the shame of the newly elected French.
Makron, who has made integrity at the office of the campaign, was forced to fire Alexandre Benalla, now 30, after a video appeared showing him a young man and won a young woman in the neck in May protested in 2018.
The former bouncer was wearing a police helmet , Although he was only given a leave to accompany security forces as observers.
But the presidency was postponed reporting the attack on the authorities, and there was a bright only after the French daily Le Monde revealed the existence of a video a few months later.
Officials denied closing allegations but “Benallagate” bubbled in the first big test for Macron, who swept the president a year earlier with the promise to restore the “Exemplary Republic”.
His government survived two votes without confidence in parliament, but the senate investigation panel that questioned the Macron Aides key found “main disadvantages” in the handling of administrative affair.
Benalla was charged with illegal attacks and intervention in police issues and the use of the police symbol.
He claimed he acted “with reflexes” to help officers arrest the protesters who are difficult to arrange.
Also tried was a friend of Benerla Vincent Crase, a former Head of the Security of the Macron Centrist Party, who was also filmed as a demonstrator in the demo.
Two police officers were accused of illegally giving Benalla with recording supervision in an effort to claim his actions were justified, it would also be on the dock.
Lawyer Benalla refused to comment ahead of the trial.
“Capturing someone who committed a crime cannot be punished by law,” said the Saint-Palais Krase lawyer told AFP, said his client reacted “spontaneously”.
Benalla began working as a bodyguard for Macron in 2016 as long as what was considered by many of his horse offers for the presidency, winning politicians and his wife Brigitte with an unlimited energy.
He was promoted to the role of senior security after the May 2017 Malron victory, became a properties of trust and right hand seen on the Macron side in countless photos.
“He is noticed as someone who can improve all practical problems very efficiently,” said a former senior campaign official.
“He thought of everything, he was our Swiss army knife.” He also received benefits usually provided for top administration officials, including an apartment near the Elysee Palace and access to the National Assembly and his personal library and library.
After the bankruptcy scandal, Benalla also claimed to carry a gun during the event with Macron, even though he was only authorized to have it in the Macron party headquarters, where he was nicknamed “Rambo”.
However, it is still unclear, how the youth of the working class environment in Evreux, a sleepy city in Normandy, held a police helmet that he saw during the May attack.
Benalla also caused a headache to Macron after his dismissal.
The investigator found that he continued to use a diplomatic passport for trips to Africa and Israel, where he tried to build a business consultation.
He allegedly used fake documents to get one of the passports, the accusation he had refused.
Benalla will also face charges by carrying a gun illegally, based on the picture in a restaurant that seems to show him with glock.
He said it was a water gun.