The detained ex-adviser Macron, convicted of beating a demonstrator, explained his actions with a desire to help the police
Former adviser to the President of France and the ex-head of his security service, Alexander Benalla, convicted by local journalists in the beating of a participant in the May Day demonstration in Paris, on July 23 made a statement in which he tried to justify his actions with the desire to provide police assistance, reports TASS with reference to AFP. The French agency transmitted Benall's statements from the words of his lawyers, is specified in the publication.