Alexandre Benalla, ex-charge of mission at the Elysee, was sent back to correctional for "forgery" and "use of forgery" and "public use and without the right of documents justifying a professional quality" at the end of the investigation on his diplomatic and service passports, a judicial source said on Wednesday (January 27th).
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This is the first referral to trial of the former collaborator of Emmanuel Macron, whose name emerged with the scandal of the violence committed during a demonstration on May 1, 2018 in Paris. In addition to the passport case, he is the target of five other judicial inquiries.