Le Monde’s Ariane Chemin has been writing about the long-brewing “Benalla affair.”
By James McAuley James McAuley Foreign correspondent focusing on French and European politics and culture Email Bio Follow May 22 at 2:07 PM PARIS — Police summoned for questioning a senior correspondent for Le Monde who has written extensively on a corruption scandal involving French President Emmanuel Macron, the newspaper said Wednesday.
Chemin is accused of “committing or attempting to commit the offense of revealing or disclosing, by any means, any information that could lead, directly or indirectly, to the identification of a person as a member of special forces,” according to a copy of the police summons shared with The Washington Post. The document also notes that if charged and convicted, she could face jail time.
Macron didn’t fire Benalla until the summer, after news reports brought attention to the incident. The Macron administration has struggled ever since to escape the controversy. Macron survived a vote of no confidence in July 2018, but his government was blasted by a Senate report released in February for its conduct in the Benalla affair.
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