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It has been a year since the scene in which the Benalla affair arrived. On May 1, 2018, the one who was then in charge of the security of the Head of State violently attacked a couple of demonstrators on the Place de la Contrescarpe in Paris. The Benalla affair has become sprawling in a few months after the revelation of information by the newspaper Le Monde before new revelations made by Mediapart. In the beginning, everything started with a video on which we see Alexandre Benalla disguised as a policeman.
It's the end of the afternoon in the student district of Paris. Sitting on a square, there are a hundred young people, surrounded by CRS, when suddenly the situation degenerates.
On the images filmed by a rebellious French activist, there is a man wearing a helmet and a police armband violently attacking a young demonstrator already on the ground. The helmeted man hit him several times before disappearing, it is actually Alexandre Benalla. This violence of the 1st of May becomes the first chapter of a case with many twists and turns.
First indicted for violence in meetings in the exercise of a public office, Alexandre Benalla is then dismissed on 20 July, by the chief of staff Emmanuel Macron.
Going up the Benalla trail, the journalists of Le Monde and Mediapart reveal in the following months several cases in which the former head of state's security officer plays a central role.
A year after the episode of the Place de la Contrescarpe, Alexandre Benalla accumulated no less than five indictments: including for use without the right to diplomatic passports or for possession of category B weapon.