"It didn't seem necessary to me that he had a police armband and I didn't put him in the bag."
On this third day of the Benalla trial hearing, it is Laurent Simonin's turn to pass on the grill of the 10th correctional chamber. The man is comptroller general, member at the time of the staff of the Directorate of public order and traffic (DOPC). Navy blue jacket, beige pants and shaved head, legs slightly apart at the bar, he speaks frankly, of his tall stature, even if the audience gets bogged down a little in the middle of the afternoon. In the bag he gave to Alexandre Benalla, who is preparing to attend, as an observer, the maintenance of order during the demonstrations of May 1, 2018, he did not
"Not put on anything other than a gas mask, a helmet and a fireproof suit"
.
The mystery therefore remains on the presence of an armband and a radio
, which
Alexandre Benalla claims to have found.
These attributes will then be worth him to be prosecuted for
"interference
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