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AFP
Paris
The most damaging scandal of Emmanuel Macron's presidency deepened on Saturday with his interior minister due to face a grilling in parliament over his response to a top security aide of Macron caught on video beating up a young man at a Paris protest in May.
Opposition lawmakers have demanded that Macron, who has so far remained silent about the incident, explain the government's stand after the videos of his aide Alexandre Benalla emerged this week.
"If Macron doesn't explain himself the Benalla affair will become the Macron affair,"far-right leader Marine Le Pen said in a tweet.
Laurent Wauquiez, the head of the Republicans party, accused the government of"trying to camouflage a matter of state"and said Macron had to clarify the matter to the French people.
And far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon from the France Unbowed party called it a scandal of Watergate proportions and accused Macron of"organising a personal militia."
