Updated April 8, 2019
Those targeted include the president’s cabinet chief Patrick Strzoda, prosecutors said in a statement.The scandal — which saw Alexandre Benalla fired last year after a video emerged of him roughing up protestors — continues to overshadow the Macron presidency. It comes after several protagonists in the case testified before the commission of inquiry of France’s upper house, the Senate.
The Senate complained of “incoherence and contradictions” in the testimony of Strzoda and two other top aides of Macron, chief of staff Alexis Kohler and presidential security chief Lionel Lavergne.
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