Calm tone, massive physique, slightly smoked glasses, the former project manager at the Élysée was
Cyril Hanouna
's guest this Saturday, in the show “Face à Hanouna”.
A variation of “TPMP” launched on February 3.
The C8 host had invited him, not to discuss his past problems with the law (the subject is not mentioned during the interview) but to decipher the security arrangements surrounding the President of the Republic.
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Alexandre Benalla
recalls the missions that were his between 2017 and 2018:
“The organization of presidential travel, the coordination of security, the management of a certain number of people in the entourage, as well as the management of the agenda Of the president."
Cyril Hanouna also forgot at this time to recall that he was fired in 2018 following the May 1 violence affair.
Birthday SMS to Macron
The host questions him about the nature of the relationship he had with Emmanuel Macron.
“Very cordial, professional, caring,”
replies Benalla, who describes the head of state as
“a very good boss
. ”
“He is interested in the lives of the people around him, he knows the first names of his bodyguards’ children
,” he smiles.
The two men no longer have an ongoing relationship.
But they exchange from time to time:
“I send SMS to celebrate his birthday or a happy new year.
As he is polite, he answers.
If he praises his former
“boss”
, Alexandre Benalla reserves his finest compliments for the first lady, who appears in a photo above the set.
“Brigitte is exceptional.
She was a second mother to many staff at the Élysée.
She is kind, caring, helpful.
» Asked to give his opinion on other personalities, he then castigates Jean-Luc Mélenchon and says all the good things he thinks of François Hollande and Gérald Darmanin.
But also from Pascal Praud.
“He is excellent, he is one of the best journalists in the PAF
,” judges Alexandre Benalla about the star host of CNews.
Earlier in the week, the former “Mr. Security” took up the cause of the channel after the controversial decision of the Council of State to force Arcom to increase control of pluralism on television.
“I support Vivendi, CNews, Bolloré!
Let the leftists go fry their eggs and let freedom express itself!”
, he wrote on social networks.
Read alsoWhy the Council of State is forcing Arcom to tighten editorial control of television channels like CNews
Sentenced in September 2023
As for his current activities, Alexandre Benalla presents himself on C8 as a
“business manager”
.
According to a recent interview given to the specialist magazine
En Safely
, he manages Comya Groupe, a private security company present in particular in Europe and Africa.
In this bimonthly, he agreed that his past troubles with the law are
“disabling regarding (his) entrepreneurial activity in France”
.
In September 2023, he was sentenced on appeal to three years in prison, including one year subject to change, in the case of the violence of May 1, 2018. Alexandre Benalla was also found guilty again of having fraudulently used his diplomatic passports after his dismissal and for having made a false document to obtain a service passport.