Four days before his second hearing by the Senate Commission of Inquiry, Alexandre Benalla was taken into custody on Thursday as part of the investigation into his diplomatic passports. Philippe Bas, the president of this Commission of Inquiry, returned on this new rebound, Thursday evening on Europe 1.
"I note that the dismissal took place in July, and that long after the dismissal he still uses working tools, such as diplomatic passports, and we find in recent days that he had other tools, such as a encrypted phone, which seems not to have been used, and service passports, that's a lot for someone who was fired, "said Senator LR. Alexandre Benalla has used his diplomatic passports "twenty times" since his dismissal, according to the chief of staff of the Presidency of the Republic, Patrick Strzoda.
"There are still a number of questions." "The idea I have of the good functioning of the state has not been properly respected.It is a pity (...)." We must make the difference, but the Minister of Foreign Affairs has finally seized justice Mr. Benalla is being prosecuted for not having returned his passports, and the Foreign Ministry has said that his travel documents have been invalidated, and I do not see what is preventing a Minister of the Interior from to say, if such an individual presents himself with a diplomatic passport to leave the territory, that he must return this diplomatic passport ", criticized Philippe Bas, who however kept himself from delivering any" conclusion ".
"It is too early to give you the conclusions of our work.Our work will end when we have had all the necessary information.There remains a number of questions.This case Benalla could have never existed if it had been dismissed as early as May 2, and if the bridges had been cut with him, "said the chairman of the Senate Inquiry. "Did this dismissal really cut the umbilical cord between Alexander Benalla and the presidency of the Republic?" This is important.