The court sentenced the former Chargé de Mission to the Elysee to three years in prison, two suspended, both for the violence committed on May 1, 2018 and for the use of false documents in the case diplomatic passports.
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“You had been invested with some power, real or supposed, and you betrayed the confidence that was made to you.” The President of 10 e Correctional Chamber of Paris, Isabelle Prévost-Desprez, has a severe tone the announcement of the judgment of his court in the Benalla case.
The main defendant, Alexandre Benalla, is convicted of the new prevention leaders in his place, mainly the immixition without the right in the police officer, the voluntary violence committed to several protesters and the couple of The place of the controbescarpe, the 1 er May 2018, in the capital, but also the concealment of images from the cameras of the Paris police prefecture as well as the false and the use of false Regarding the diplomatic passports obtained by the former mission manager at the Elysee.
“Impunity feeling”
Believing that Mr. Benalla had shown a “feeling of impunity and omnipotence”, the court was well beyond the requisitions of the Crown. He had requested a sentence of eighteen months of suspended detention. Affirming that “only a mixed sentence is likely to mark the gravity of the facts”, the Tribunal condemns Alexandre Benalla to three years of detention, one year ago, that he will be able to carry out his mother’s home, under electronic bracelet. The Chairperson noted that Mr. Benalla had provided “false pieces” from the court concerning his home and income.
In his judgment, M me prevost-desprez noted that, “far from [his] willingness to protect the institution”, Mr. Benalla had, at the hearing, “sown Doubt on the declarations “of his superiors and” implicated the declarations of the witnesses “, when he did not give” absurd and irresponsible “explanations concerning the” selfie “taken on the sidelines of the 2017 campaign, on which he holds by hand a firearm. She also found that by using a letterhead of her superior to the Elysée, François-Xavier Lauch, for a diplomatic passport, Mr. Benalla had “crossed the line between resourcefulness and criminal offense”.
But it is on the muscular arrests committed at the May 2018 by the Chairman that the President has been the most severe, distinguishing the “confusion of the roles and functions” operated By Mr. Benalla, who “thrown the opprobrium on the police officer”. She showed the same severity regarding the use by Mr. Benalla of images from the video surveillance cameras. “Sweet grades had to violate professional secrecy in the exclusive interest of your media defense,” she notes, not without tacler, in passing, the fact that “the authorities at the Elysee and the prefecture of police , knowing your actions, have not reported these “.
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