Mediapart search: Matignon has brought to justice elements that led to the opening of the investigation

After the questions of several journalists in connection with the case of Alexander Benalla, Matignon warned the public prosecutor of Paris who organized the search.
A few days after the much-criticized search attempt by the courts at Mediapart headquarters, many questions remain unresolved. This Wednesday, according to new information revealed by Mediapart and confirmed by BFMTV, the preliminary investigation for "invasion of privacy" would have been triggered after Matignon sent several elements to justice.

In a letter, signed by Prime Minister Benoît Ribadeau-Dumas' Chief of Staff, dated 1 February, which BFMTV was able to obtain (see below), the attention of Paris prosecutor Rémy Heitz is indeed drawn on several points.

Meeting at Marie-Elodie Poitout?

Following the publication on January 31 by Mediapart of several recordings on which we can hear Alexandre Benalla and Vincent Crase discuss and plan the destruction of evidence, several journalists, including one of the weekly Valeurs Actuelles, questioned Matignon on the potential place of the meeting between the two men.

As Mediapart explains in his article on Wednesday, it is suspected that the two men met in the apartment of the head of the group responsible for the security of Prime Minister (GSPM), Marie-Elodie Poitout.

An affirmation refuted by Matignon. "The GSPM leader denies any involvement in the breach of the judicial review of Messrs. Benalla and Crase and claims to know Mr. Benalla, but never to have met Mr. Crase and to his knowledge this one. has never come to her home, and she denies that her partner was able to organize this meeting at her home in her absence, "retort current values.

The prosecution warned February 1

It is the next day, the 1st of February, that Matignon alerts the parquet of Paris of this new situation and communicates the questions asked the day before.

    "This is in no way a report or article 40 (article of the Code of Criminal Procedure which requires a person depositing public authority to report a crime, reports Mediapart). to share in a transparent manner with the justice of the elements of answer transmitted to the press and which are likely to concern a judicial case in progress ", reports Matignon.

In the following article, Mediapart believes that the reasons for the search attempt are based "on sand" and condemns the "unprecedented zeal" of the public prosecutor of Paris, Rémi Heitz, who organized, without warrant of a independent judge, the search so controversial.

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