Alexandre Benalla, former collaborator of Emmanuel Macron, will be tried from September 13 to October 1 for violence committed during the demonstration on May 1, 2018 and the fraudulent use of diplomatic passports, the Paris Criminal Court announced on Tuesday, May 4.
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The court ordered, at a procedural hearing, the joinder of the two cases for the good administration of justice. The revelations of the newspaper Le Monde in July 2018 showing Alexandre Benalla, then in charge of mission at the Elysee, wearing a visor helmet of the police hitting a protester on the Place de la Contrescarpe in Paris, had led to a political scandal.