The ex-collaborator of the Elysée had already been in review since January, 2019, for “public use, and without the right of a supporting document to a professional quality”.
Alexander Benalla, ex-chargé de mission at the Elysée, has once again been brought into consideration, on the 11th of February, in the survey of their diplomatic passports, this time for “false” and “use fake”, according to a justice source on Friday, confirming information from Mediapart.
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In this folder, Benalla had already been in review since January, 2019, for “public use, and without the right of a supporting document to a professional quality”. He had at that time been placed under the status of witness assisted, intermediate between the ordinary witness and the indictment for “abuse of trust”, “forgery and use of forged administrative document” and “obtaining undue administrative document”. His lawyer was said to be “very very happy” with the outcome of this court appearance. Last February 11, the investigating judge in charge of the case has, therefore, decided to put it also under investigation for “forgery and use of forged administrative document”.
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This survey aims to clarify the conditions under which the former chargé de mission in the Elysium has continued to use diplomatic passports after her indictment in July 2018 for violence during the 1-May and his dismissal.
Case sprawling
Three close colleagues of Emmanuel Macron, the secretary-general of the Elysée, Alexis Kohler and his chief of staff then, François-Xavier Lauch, were heard in April 2019 by the judges in charge of this investigation. Lauch, now deputy chief of staff to the minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, who had been summoned as a civil party after having filed a complaint against Alexander Benalla, which it was at the time the superior to a “use of false” aiming to obtain one of these passports service.
After you have asserted in a first time before the Senate left in his office at the Elysée palace, Benalla was recognized to have recovered, and used those passports, and then had rendered. According Mediapart and The World, Alexander Benalla has used one of its two diplomatic passports to enter in several african countries. Contacted, his lawyer, Me Jacqueline Laffont has not given result.
Several court cases have been opened in the sprawling case, Benalla, primarily to the public prosecutor of Paris, but also in parquet national financier (PNF). In addition to the file of passports, Alexander Benalla has also been indicted for the abuses on the margins of the parade 1-May 2018, and for the selfie taken with a weapon during the presidential campaign of 2017.
