TRUE OR FAKE Alexandre Benalla has the right to travel outside France despite his judicial control?

Several media reports that the former employee of the Elysee has visited Switzerland in recent days.

Can Alexandre Benalla travel as he pleases? Since Wednesday, March 6, several media reports that the former collaborator Emmanuel Macron, under judicial supervision, went to Geneva, Switzerland. Information, unconfirmed by the person concerned, which has arrested many Internet users. "Alexandre Benalla seems to have been seen in Geneva, is this compatible with his judicial control, notwithstanding the assertions of his lawyer?" Asks a reader.

Back to back On July 22, 2018, Alexandre Benalla and Vincent Crase are indicted and placed under judicial control as part of the investigation into the violence of 1-May Square Contrescarpe in Paris. They are then prohibited from contacting each other. But on January 31, 2019, Mediapart publishes clandestine recordings of a conversation between the two men dating from July 26. Alexandre Benalla and Vincent Crase will then be remanded in custody on February 19 for failure to comply with their judicial review. A measure that will last only one week. On February 26, the two men are released. The judges finally found that these elements did not prove with certainty that the two men had violated their judicial control.

No ban on leaving the territory

In early March, Alexandre Benalla remains indicted and subject to judicial review. It is in this situation that the Tribune de Genève reveals, Wednesday, March 6, the presence of Alexander Benalla in Switzerland. Two witnesses would have seen him in Geneva. Information subsequently corroborated by the released Le Dauphine, who claims that the former adviser of the Elysee has dined at the Golden Lion Inn in Switzerland, Tuesday, March 5 in the evening.

This situation has attracted many observers. And for good reason, the judicial controls can, sometimes, be associated with a prohibition of exit from the national territory. But this is not the case for Alexandre Benalla, assures his lawyer. "My client is not obliged to stay in France, he is free to go to the country he wants," said Jacqueline Laffont, without further comment, at La Tribune. of Geneva. A statement confirmed by a judicial source at franceinfo: the judicial control of Alexandre Benalla "does not forbid him to move out of France".

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