The police, responsible for investigating counterfeit tickets during the Champions League final, asked the Stade de France on Thursday evening for images of the violence filmed by its cameras.
The police, responsible for investigating counterfeit tickets during the Champions League final, asked the Stade de France on Thursday evening for images of the violence filmed by its cameras, shortly after the announcement in the Senate that they had been destroyed, we learned Friday from a source familiar with the matter.
“We have indeed sent a requisition even if these videos will not be very useful for our investigation of counterfeit notes, they will be more useful for violence and assaults,” said this source, confirming information from Le Monde.
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This request was sent by the Astute Delinquency Repression Brigade (BRDA) of the Parisian judicial police, charged by the Bobigny prosecution with investigating the fake ticket office on the evening of the Real Madrid-Liverpool final, preceded by scenes of chaos around the Stade de France.
Asked about the temporality of this request, while an official of the French Football Federation (FFF) had revealed a few hours earlier during his hearing in the Senate that the images had been destroyed after seven days for lack of requisition, the source said he “still hopes” to get them back, without further details.
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Thursday evening’s information “according to which these images would not be kept for one month, the maximum authorized legal duration, but only a few days – information that we did not know – led us to request them all the same”, explained the Bobigny prosecution. .
“We are awaiting feedback to find out if these images have been deleted or retained,” he added.
Anger and misunderstanding
This revelation aroused anger and incomprehension among senators and, beyond that, in the opposition. This “leads to believe that compromising evidence has been knowingly allowed to be destroyed”, according to the leader of the senators LR Bruno Retailleau.
“I was immediately amazed, I thought it was very serious”, commented David Assouline, PS vice-president of the Senate law commission, on Friday on franceinfo, denouncing an “incredible lack of coordination ” of the prefect of police and political leaders.
“It’s called covering your tracks,” reacted Marine Le Pen, RN candidate for the legislative elections in Pas-de-Calais, on BFMTV and RMC. The absence of images makes it possible to “cover their enormous lies”, she added, targeting the Ministers of the Interior Gérald Darmanin and Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti.
The police headquarters recalled that its own images were available to the courts.