In July 2018, Alexandre Benalla is identified by the newspaper
Le Monde
on a video in which he appears with a helmet of the police, brutalizing a woman and a man, place de la Contrescarpe, in Paris, at the end of 'a day of demonstration punctuated by clashes, on May 1.
So at the heart of the president's security system, he was supposed to have only an observer role that day.
Sanctioned by a 15-day suspension, he had kept an office at the Elysee Palace, the daily revealed.
Investigators then discover that the head of state's security officer allegedly molested a couple on the same square, as well as two other people in the Jardin des Plantes.
The tale of the facts -
A year ago, the Benalla affair began at Place de la Contrescarape