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Alexandre Benalla, the former aide to President Macron, was indicted on Friday for the use of his diplomatic passports after his dismissal from the Elysee Palace. The investigating judges retained only the " public use and without right of a document justifying a professional quality ".
In this new case known as "diplomatic passports", it is alleged that Alexander Benalla have used them twenty times in his various trips abroad, while he no longer worked at the Elysee.
These revelations led to the resumption of the work of the Senate Law Commission which opened a new investigation. Heard Wednesday by this commission, Patrick Strzoda, the chief of staff of the head of state, accuses Alexander Benalla of " falsification " of document to obtain one of the service passports, revealing to have seized the floor of Paris.
According to Me Jacqueline Laffont, his client was indicted " exclusively " for " public use and without right of a document justifying a professional quality ", and is not pursued at the moment for the accusations of false administrative documents, launched Wednesday by the Elysee.
Shadow areas hover over this second passport. Clearly, to get the former collaborator Emmanuel Macron, would have used a letter in front of the chief of staff of the Elysee. A typed and unsigned letter, said Patrick Strzoda.
Alexandre Benalla had claimed to have deposited his passports in his office of the Elysee Palace after his dismissal. Words spoken while he was under oath.
Did Alexandre Benalla lie before the commission? Alexandre Benalla assured the Journal du Dimanche that the passports had been " returned " to him by a " member of the presidency " with his personal belongings, at the beginning of October. This allows him to say that he did not lie before the Senate Law Commission, which heard him in September.
As of Monday, Emmanuel Macron's former colleague must be heard again by the Senate's inquiry committee. But given this ongoing judicial inquiry, senators will be limited in their investigations.