The Court of Cassation rejected on Wednesday June 26, 2024 the appeal of the former Elysée mission manager Alexandre Benalla, who had been sentenced in 2023 on appeal to three years in prison, one year of which is closed, reports theFrance Media Agency. His sentence therefore becomes final.
The images of Alexandre Benalla at Place de la Contrescarpe in Paris sparked a political storm in July 2018, when The world had identified, under a police helmet, this close friend of Emmanuel Macron.
He had been convicted, along with Vincent Crase, a former gendarmerie reservist, for violence against several people in the Latin Quarter, on the sidelines of a demonstration on Labor Day. Vincent Crase’s cassation appeal was also rejected.
Alexandre Benalla, who today lives in Switzerland and works in the private sector, remains the target of three investigations in France. He was also sanctioned for fraudulently using his diplomatic passports after his dismissal, creating a false document to obtain a service passport and illegally carrying a weapon in 2017.
He won’t go to jail
Alexandre Benalla will not go to prison: the appeal court has in fact adjusted the firm part of his sentence. It is a sentencing judge (JAP) who will determine the conditions (for example, under electronic bracelet).
From the beginning, Alexandre Benalla maintained that he had wanted, by “citizen reflex”, “to question” of the “aggressors” of police officers during a demonstration punctuated by incidents, speaking of “failed technical gestures”.
