President Emmanuel Macron says rumours that his sacked bodyguard was his lover are baseless. Alexandre Benalla, 26, was sacked as Macr...
President Emmanuel Macron says rumours that his sacked
bodyguard was his lover are baseless.
Alexandre Benalla, 26, was sacked as Macron's head of
security last week after a video of him wearing a police helmet and beating
protesters emerged.
He has now been arrested and taken into police custody. In
a statement to MPs he said Benalla was not his lover and joked he 'did not have
access to any codes for France's nuclear weapons'.
He said to his fellow En Marche representatives on
Tuesday: 'Alexandre Benalla has never
had the nuclear codes … Alexandre Benalla is not my lover.'
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