(UTV|COLOMBO) – French prosecutors are investigating a senior presidential aide who attacked protesters in Paris while wearing a police visor.
Alexandre Benalla, an assistant to President Emmanuel Macron’s chief of staff, was filmed targeting a woman and a man during May Day protests.
He was caught on video by a student activist and left the scene once challenged on camera.
He was identified from the video by French newspaper Le Monde.
On Thursday, it emerged he was accompanied on the day by a reserve policeman and employee of Mr Macron’s political party, Vincent Crase.
France’s Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said he had ordered an investigation by the country’s national police inspectorate.
“These two people had no legal right to intervene,” he said.
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