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French presidency faces new embarrassment from ex-bodyguard
[PRESSTV] Emmanuel Macron's former security adviser has revealed that he regularly spoke and exchanged messages with the French president even after he was removed from his job over a political scandal in July.Alexandre Benalla, originally Macron’s bodyguard before taking the adviser’s role, made the revelation in an interview with French news website Mediapart on Monday, saying he has had conversations with the president and other brass hats on the Telegram messaging application since he was evicted from the Elysee Palace in July. "We exchange messages on lots of different subjects. It's often like, 'how do you see things'. It could be about the 'yellow vests', the views on someone or security issues," Benalla said in the interview. "It will be hard for them to deny, since all these exchanges are on my mobile telephone," he added. This comes as French officials have time and again said there were no contacts between the former bodyguard and the presidency since his sacking. Posted by: Fred 2019-01-01 |
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