Victim of an amnesiac episode after a drunken evening, Jean Spiri, Brigitte Macron’s chief of staff could leave the Elysée. An embarrassing episode occurred the day before the triggering of 49.3 on the pension reform in the National Assembly.
The Elysée turns heads. On the night of March 14 to 15, Jean Spiri, Brigitte Macron’s chief of staff, found himself in an embarrassing situation after a drunken eveningreports The world. According to information from the daily, it was his excessive consumption of alcohol and then a blackout which would be at the origin of his probable eviction.
After spending a while in a bar in the Place des Saussaies, very close to the Elysée, the adviser became unwell in front of the United Kingdom embassy, rue Faubourg-Saint-Honoré. He was in a state associated by the police with an acute blood alcohol level, according to our colleagues. “I work at the Elysée”, would have specified Jean Spiri to the police, before being transferred to the Lariboisière hospital. He returned home at 5 a.m. He would no longer have any memory of this nocturnal episode.
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An embarrassing timing
The episode might seem anecdotal. But he intervened in a great moment of great tension for the presidency. The incident indeed occurred the day before the outbreak of 49.3, while the whole Elysée is on the edge and the Benalla affair is still in everyone’s mind. Warned by the Ministry of the Interior, the management of Emmanuel Macron’s cabinet would have asked the main interested party for an explanation the next day. On March 17, the Percy Army Hospital medical report ruled out taking drugs and confirmed a medical amnesia episode.
He said to himself “fatigue” nearby Worldbut supported by its management. “The Elysée is a terrible house where, unfortunately, all the rumors run…” he said explained, as he took a month off from Paris.
Jean Spiri arrived in the east wing of the Elysée only three months ago. He had succeeded Pierre-Olivier Costa. Formerly an editor in the Bolloré group and president of the Regional Center for Information and Prevention of AIDS in Ile-de-France, this former close friend of Xavier Bertrand explained that he had chained many stressful positions lately.
Visibly touched, the likely future ex-adviser to the First Lady said to himself “perhaps more for books” than for politics, into which he had just plunged again. The normalien is not sure to have “want to dive back into the same stress” and seek “a new job”. He would just like “quickly turn the page”.