The former Elysée mission manager, Alexandre Benalla, was sentenced on appeal this Friday, in the May 1, 2018 affair, to three years in prison, one of which was suspended. The same sentence was handed down at first instance.
The Paris Court of Appeal confirmed on Friday September 29 the sentence of three years in prison, including one year, for the former Elysée mission manager Alexandre Benalla, retried in the May 1, 2018 case, that of passports and for illegal carrying of a weapon, reports the franceinfo journalist present in court.
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The sentence of his friend Vincent Crase, also tried, was also confirmed on appeal. He received a two-year suspended sentence and a ten-year ban on carrying a weapon.
The former close friend of President Emmanuel Macron Alexandre Benalla was also found guilty again of having fraudulently used his diplomatic passports after his dismissal, fabricating a false document to obtain a service passport and illegally carrying a weapon in 2017. He also receives a fine of 500 euros.
The court of appeal confirmed the prison sentence imposed by the criminal court on November 5, 2021, as well as the fine of 500 euros and the bans on carrying a weapon for 10 years and holding public office for 5 years. If the court had directly arranged the firm part in home detention under electronic bracelet, the court of appeal decided to let a sentence enforcement judge (JAP) decide on the appropriate accommodation.
Recognized violence against four people
At first instance, the man who was at the heart of Emmanuel Macron’s security system was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, including one year spent under an electronic bracelet. During this appeal trial, an 18-month suspended prison sentence was requested against Alexandre Benalla.
Alexandre Benalla appeared a second time in June alongside his friend Vincent Crase, former employee of LREM (now Renaissance), for his actions during May 1 for Labor Day, as well as for a series of separate offenses . The images of the two men at Place de la Contrescarpe in Paris, filmed by journalist and activist Taha Bouhafs, sparked a lasting political storm in July 2018, when the newspaper The world had identified, under the helmet of the police, this close friend of the president.
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Now aged 32 and 50 respectively, Alexandre Benalla and Vincent Crase were prosecuted for having brutalized a total of five people in the Latin Quarter on the sidelines of the Parisian demonstration, while they only attended the parade as observers. The violence was recognized on four of the five people.