Alexandre Benalla, 29, a former collaborator of Emmanuel Macron who has been converted into the private sector, will be tried from September 13 to October 1 for violence committed during the demonstration on May 1, 2018 and the fraudulent use of diplomatic passports, announced on Tuesday. the Paris Criminal Court.
The court ordered, at a procedural hearing, the joinder of the two cases for the good administration of justice.
Political scandal
The revelations of the newspaper Le Monde in July 2018 showing Alexandre Benalla, then in charge of mission at the Elysee Palace, wearing a visor helmet of the police hitting a protester on May 1, on the Place de la Contrescarpe in Paris , had resulted in a political scandal.
In this first part, Alexandre Benalla will appear for “violence in meetings, interference without title in the exercise of a public function, carrying of a weapon, public use and without right of a badge, violation of the professional secrecy and disclosure of video protection images “.
At his side, Vincent Crase, former employee of the Republic on the move, will be prosecuted for “violence in meetings, public use and without the right of a badge, carrying a prohibited weapon and deleting data”.
Two former high-ranking officers of the Paris Police Prefecture, suspected of having handed over to Mr. Benalla the CCTV images of the Place de la Contrescarpe, will be tried for “disclosure of CCTV images and violation of professional secrecy”.
One of them, Maxence Creusat, is the current commissioner of Thionville. Before arriving in the Moselle, this commissioner was stationed in the Bas-Rhin, where he headed the public security district of Haguenau. He had been transferred there in the wake of the Benalla affair.
In detail, Alexandre Benalla is accused of having molested demonstrators on the sidelines of the May 1 parade, a couple in the Place de la Contrescarpe and two people in the Jardin des Plantes.
Regarding the second part, Mr. Benalla will also be tried for “forgery, use of forgery in writing and public use without the right of a badge”. He is accused of having continued to use diplomatic passports for several months after his dismissal from the Elysee Palace on July 20, 2018.
Three other ongoing proceedings
In addition to these two cases, three other legal proceedings concerning the former collaborator of the president are still ongoing.
A procedure for “failure to report to the HATVP (High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life)” was dismissed in February 2020.
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