The former Elysee mission manager Alexandre Benalla will appeal his sentence on Friday to three years in prison, including one year closed under an electronic bracelet, for violence committed during the demonstration of May 1, 2018, announced his lawyer on BFMTV.

"Alexandre Benalla will obviously appeal against this judgment, which we are currently learning," said Me Jacqueline Laffont.

The former Elysee mission manager Alexandre Benalla was sentenced on Friday to three years' imprisonment, including one year closed under an electronic bracelet, in particular for violence committed during the demonstration of May 1, 2018, the images of which had triggered a resounding political scandal.

An "unacceptable and unbearable behavior"

More than three years after the "Benallagate", the court sanctioned the "unacceptable and unbearable behavior of the social body, casting shame on the function of police officer" of the former close collaborator of the Head of State. “You have been invested with a certain power, real with regard to your functions, supposed because of your proximity to the President of the Republic. You have betrayed the trust placed in you by this appointment, ”President Isabelle Prévost-Desprez told the accused, standing at the bar.

Now 30 years old and converted into the private sector, Alexandre Benalla protested his innocence during the trial in September.

“Alexandre Benalla will obviously appeal this judgment,” also declared Me Jacqueline Laffont.

I would also like to say that we were particularly shocked (...) by the incredible severity of the sentence, which is in total disproportion with the facts in question and by the unnecessary violence of the terms of the deliberation. "

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The former member of the presidential cabinet saw his sentence accompanied by a fine of 500 euros, a ban from public office for five years and carrying a weapon for ten years, with confiscation of those he possesses.

He remains targeted by three preliminary investigations, around a contract signed with a Russian oligarch, on the disappearance of his safes as well as for suspicions of false testimony.

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