L'affaire Benalla Part 2

[mint]

Will this be the straw that breaks the Macron back?

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If you can't see it, look for Passeports Diplomatigues in le Figaro

[woolybanana]

Problem is that there is noone else to take his place.

[Loiseau]

I managed to read a bit about it on the Ouest-France site. And noticed a new word for you (and me!), mint. “limogeage”.

Now is that link going to work...

EDIT. Hmm, apparently not.

Should be this

https://www.ouest-france.fr/politique/affaire-benalla/passeports-diplomatiques-de-benalla-l-elysee-n-recu-aucune-information-sur-leur-utilisation-6153555

But it is looking a load more complex now!

[NormanH]

I have often heard the expression 'se faire limoger'

http://www.expressio.fr/expressions/se-faire-limoger.php

C'est dans l'air this evening was about this affair (you may need to use a VPN  to make it look as as if you were in France to watch French TV if you are in the UK at the moment)

https://www.france.tv/france-5/c-dans-l-air/836141-benalla-questions-sur-des-passeports.html

[mint]

Loiseau, I like your limogeage, c'est élégant!

I also like la trêve though I understand that the manifs will go ahead this weekend and there will no truce!

Doesn't look too good for Macron to be barricaded in his forteresse and to be seen with his wife in St Tropez when all this stuff with Benalla is unfolding and the GJs being out in force.  And poor old le Drian having to answer questions about the passports.

I heard the protesters saying he is the president for the rich and, on the evidence, I can't say I blame them!

Anyway, what is behind all this favoritism with Benalla?  He looks a bit of a thug to me.

Edit:  Loiseau, I meant to also say that I couldn't use your link, having been informed that the page "n'existe pas"[:(]

[Loiseau]

Strange, mint. I just did a copier-coller of the link, and it went straight through to the OF page.

If you do get to it, is that Benalla in the photograph, gazing adoringly at Macron? :-|

[mint]

Yes, Loiseau, it's working now and yes, that's him.  He is built like a tank and maybe Macron likes them big and beefy.....especially if he is being used like a bouncer in a night club?

[Patf]

Here's a link from La Depeche - copy and paste to get it::

https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2018/12/29/2932547-affaire-benalla-parquet-paris-ouvre-enquete-abus-confiance.html

I 'm naive and je ne comprends pas the undercurrents.

[NormanH]

You mean you don't like a bit of rough? [:D]

One might imagine he might make Macron bend but not break....

[mint]

Er....hem....I fear your imagination is in overdrive this morning![:D]

[Loiseau]

LOL mint!

Interesting discussion on "C dans l'air" thanks Norman.

I didn’t watch the whole thing (why do those programmes go on so long, on French tv?), but was glad to catch up with the story.

[woolybanana]

He has clearly been celebrating the massive increase in income he will have after the GJs have finished.

Wincarnis always does go to his head!