CASE BENALLA ACT II SCENE 2

THE BAL OF  LIARS

Alexandre Benalla slept since 19/02 at the prison of Health in Paris, while Vincent Crase had been placed in that of Bois d'Arcy (Yvelines) on the decisions of judges and a judge of Freedoms and Detention, confirmed by the Investigating Chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal.

Opposed to these decisions, their respective lawyers had filed, in the same Trial Chamber, in the form of a free trial, new applications for release which were thus examined on February 26, separately, the said lawyers considering that their incarceration was unjustified and unfounded in law.

Even if, we agree, deprivation of liberty must be the exception, we have been taken seriously by these successive twists and turns.

The case is becoming surreal.

Recall !

Alexandre Benalla, the guardian angel of Emmanuel Macron (and often Brigitte) who had only to cross the street in the aftermath of the presidential elections of May 2017 to find a job in charge of missions doubled the duties of guard of the body and maid (?) is at the origin of what today appears to be a Macron affair and therefore a matter of state (see our previous editions).

It all starts on May 1, 2018. Disguised as a policeman, Alexandre Benalla wrestles in physical acts, violently, on opponents to Emmanuel Macron who came to protest on the Place de la Contre Escarpe in Paris. A video immortalizes the incident and this video circulates widely enough to become public and create the attention of the two parliamentary assemblies which then decide, one and the other, to set up Commissions of Investigations.

The Commission of Inquiry of the National Assembly "sinks" very quickly.Ses works are a fiasco of which its President, Yaël Braun Pivet, Deputy LREM, President of the Commission of Constitutional laws (lawyer by profession in the civil life) carries the entire responsibility. Yaël Braun Pivet has become the result of its events the emblematic figure of Parliamentarism Godillot that earned him the Prize Pan Pans awarded on January 10, 2019 by the Anticor Association.

At the same time, the Senate Inquiry Committee is resisting the pressures, continues on its merry way, investigates and questions with every turn. His works are broadcast publicly on the TV channel and the French (or foreigners interested in French politics) become "taped" listening to the revelations that arise hearing after hearing.

Following these revelations Alexandre Benalla and Vincent Crase are indicted on July 21, 2018 and placed under judicial control which makes them absolutely forbidden to meet and exchange.

A few months later, our colleague Médiapart published, on January 30, 2019, the audio recording of a strange conversation between the two men about secret appointments, erasing data on their respective laptops etc.

Médiapart states that these conversations were recorded on July 26, 2018 only a few days after the indictment of the two men; these recordings show that Alexandre Benalla and Vincent Crase violated their judicial control.

From then on, it was inevitable that the mechanics of a state affair would start and the crisis meetings would follow one another at the Elysee.

It is therefore because of the violation of their judicial control, of which Médiapart declares to hold certain evidence that the two men, summoned to the all nine Palais de Justice of Paris on February 19th, were placed in detention.

The two men have "languished" in prison since that date, leaving their respective lawyers to organize their defense and therefore to seek, in summary, liberty, again in front of the Trial Chamber of the Court of Appeal of Paris their release.

It is said that since then, Alexandre Benalla would be ready to "swing" Emmanuel Macron? In this antagonism of "rascals" it would be interesting to compose a new literary book titled "The revenge of Scapin".

But this path is not certain? The Elysee could continue to protect his dear "Benallou" by increasing pressure on the public prosecutor, Rémi Heitz, appointed November 8, 2018 in incredible conditions thanks to the stubbornness of Emmanuel Macron, which Rémi Heitz recognizes that it is today in a particularly uncomfortable situation. Yet it is he, who at the request of the Minister of Justice, Nicole Belloubet decided to search Médiapart ...

This last issue is indeed not impossible especially when we learn that Alexandre Benalla and Vincent Crase "were placed on February 19, 2019, the same day they were remanded for violation of their judicial control, in the same box and left 1:30 face to face .... the time they give their violins.

This huge mess was put on the account of "poor transmission of instructions from magistrates to police escorts" (in fact the @mail would not have been sent?). The TGI of Paris declined to comment, but a source familiar with the case called the situation ubiquitous!

As usual, for Christophe Castaner, the Minister of the Interior, the Benalla case is not a matter of state. The Minister claims to have questioned the possibility that the Médiapart recordings were made by a police service, whether they were judicial or administrative. He says he had checked!

For his part, our colleague Médiapart recalled that he was not an information office, but an information newspaper, which fights against the obstacles to the truth in this case or in others.

To protect its sources, Médiapart objected, as has just been indicated, to a search carried out as part of a preliminary investigation following a complaint lodged by Alexandre Benalla and Vincent Crase, "for breach of privacy of their private life (?) ".

As a result of this incident, Médiapart officially handed over a copy of the 7 unpublished recordings that Justice wanted to obtain by force.

The Benalla affair is not over.

The media, the parliament and the rustling of the web will be able to comment for a long time on what appears today as a sordid affair, symptomatic of what one can describe as the stables of Augias of the Presidency of the Republic.

And we must admit, these stables there, "they stink", as the system has been worm-eaten and perverse. The waving of the Macronist Republic will fill the atmosphere for a long time.