Former Elysee senior security officer Alexandre Benalla (L) looks over prior to the start a Senate committee in Paris on September 19, 2018. The disgraced former bodyguard at the centre of the biggest scandal of Emmanuel Macron's young presidency appeared before a Senate committee which will quiz him over his close ties to France's maverick leader. Benalla made global headlines in July after Le Monde newspaper revealed him as the man filmed roughing up demonstrators at a May Day rally in Paris, posing as a police officer with a police helmet and armband. / AFP PHOTO / Alain JOCARD