CASE BENALLA OR SAVE THE PRESIDENT MACRON AT ELYSEE

The latter admitted having asked a LREM employee to broadcast a video to "defend" the Elysee and the President of the Republic in the Benalla case.

The counter-offensive of the Benalla affair came from the Elysee, from the office of one of Emmanuel Macron's closest collaborators: Ismael Emelien.

This testimony, now on record, specifies the conditions under which CCTV images from the Paris police headquarters were broadcast, on July 19, via a Twitter account pro Macron, used by LREM but from unofficial way.

This sequence was supposed to mitigate the responsibility of Alexandre Benalla accused of molesting a couple, on the sidelines of the violence of May 1, 2018. It shows, in fact, the two young people throw projectiles against CRS.

Emelien confirms having organized this media response, but he assures that he ignored at the time the origin of these images obtained by Benalla, and deposited at his office at the Elysee, on the morning of the 19th.

According to him, they could come from a video found on the Internet, images of tourist webcams or private videoprotection.

It was above all to "ensure the defense of the President of the Republic."

The only idea that the adviser had in mind was to clear Emmanuel Macron.

"It was not, he said, to ensure the personal defense of Mr. Benalla, but that of the Elysee and the President of the Republic who were caught in part in this crisis. ".

Also according to his testimony, the advisor sends the sequence to Pierre Le Texier, in charge of the digital response for LREM, one of his relays in the party posting video on the account @Frenchpolitic.

Also according to the words of the special advisor. "In the late afternoon, I am alerted by the press service of the Elysee on the fact that journalists are questioning us about a video that would have been stolen in connection with Benalla. I am in doubt and I ask Mr. Le Texier to withdraw the publication, "says Emelien during his hearing.

According to his story, it is only then that he becomes aware of the origin of these images and the illegal nature of their dissemination. The video is then transmitted by the Elysee to the public prosecutor. And a dismissal procedure brought against Alexandre Benalla.

But Ismael Emelien is the specialist in digital strategy. So could he ignore that these images had been filmed by the police ?

It is the answer to this question that will determine whether we can blame him for the offense of "hijacking of images from a system of video surveillance and concealment of images from a system of videoprotection and concealment of violation of professional secret " .

A game of fools.