The court went beyond the requisitions: during the trial, in September, eighteen months of suspended prison had been required against the former Chargé de l’Elysée.
Le Monde with AFP
It has been at the heart of a major political storm of the Quinquennate Macron. The Paris court sentenced Friday, November 5, Alexandre Benalla to three years in prison, one year ago, under electronic bracelet.
The former mission manager of the Elysée was pursued for twelve offenses, including “Violence in Meeting” and “Immixtion in Police Officer” in the event of the 2018 International Workers’ Day in the Capital . During the trial, in September, the Prosecutor had required eighteen months of suspended imprisonment against the former Emmanuel Macron’s close collaborator, now reconverted in the private, and sentences of two to twelve months suspended against his friend. and former employee of the Vincent Crase presidential party, as well as two police officers.
Near Emmanuel Macron was also involved for having worn an unauthorized pistol in 2017 in Poitiers, as well as for use, after his dismissal, two diplomatic passports at eleven trips and made a false document so to get a service passport. At the hearing, the prosecution had requested complementary penalties of 500 euros a fine, a prohibition of any public service for five years and wearing wearing for ten years – fifteen years for Vincent Crase.
Diplomatic passports
describing a “media tide wave”, a “cataclysm” for a man who was “diabolized”, the defense of the former member of the cabinet of Emmanuel Macron had pleaded the relaxation for all the offenses, With the exception of fraudulent use – recognized – diplomatic passports.
His lawyers argued that he and Mr. Crase had “helped to challenge” the authors of a “flagrant” crime, as the law authorizes it in certain circumstances, arguing that their gestures were “proportionate”. Prolix at the bar, Alexandre Benalla assured to have been “Loyal, Loyal, Honest” and challenged all “voluntary violence”, claiming to have wanted “to interpel” “police aggressors”.
The Project Manager had been identified by Le Monde, on July 18, 2018, on a video in which he appeared, wearing a helmet of the police, brutalizing a woman and a man, Place de la Countecarpe in Paris, after a day of the 1 – enamelled with violence.
Member of the Presidential Cabinet, the 26-year-old man had been integrated that day into the police device as a simple observer. The article had triggered a political earthquake whose replicas had shaken for many months the summit of the State, of the revelations of the press in parliamentary committees.