The candidate of the National Rally in the Legislative Elections considered that the ministers had worked in a “intentional” manner, while Bruno Retailleau evokes a “state scandal”.
Le Monde
The controversy is still not extinguished. Friday, June 10, Gérald Darmanin and Eric Dupond-Moretti, respectively Minister of the Interior and Keeper of the Seals, were at the heart of the criticisms of the opposition, who accuses them of not having assured that all the video surveillance images Incidents that occurred near the Stade de France (Saint-Denis) during the final of the football champions league, May 28, would be kept.
The latter are systematically destroyed after seven days, unless the justice requisition, as the law provides. Those of the police prefecture have been preserved. On the other hand, those of the cameras managed by the Stade de France were not, for lack of a requisition of justice, revealed Erwan Le Prévost, director of institutional relations of the French Football Federation (FFF) during A hearing in the Senate, Thursday.
“State scandal” and “intentional act”, according to the opposition
“It’s called covering her traces,” denounced Marine Le Pen, candidate (naiotal rally, RN) in the legislative elections in Pas-de-Calais, two days before the first round. “I dare not imagine that our leaders are incompetent to the point of not having immediately, given the echo that this case of the Stade de France had, (…) asked that the [images of] video surveillance be transmitted to them . So it is voluntary “and” it is a destruction of evidence by inaction, “she accused on BFM-TV and RMC.
The ex-presidential candidate has taken named by MM. Darmanin and Dupond-Moretti: “The fact that there is no video surveillance to cover their huge lies”, she judged, evoking in particular “the fable of the forty thousand people who had false tickets “.
“We are heading straight for a state scandal”, with an “intentional act” to “make evidence disappear, which is undoubtedly proof of charge”, said on RFI the president of the Republicans in the Senate , Bruno Retailleau, for whom the two ministers “do not assume their responsibilities, that is to say the doglit, disorder, delinquency”.
The presidential majority considers that there is “Sufficient elements” for an investigation
David Assouline (Socialist Party), Vice-President of the Senate Culture, Education and Communication Commission, judged Franceinfo “very serious” that certain images were destroyed after seven days . But, for the delegated president of the group La République en Marche (LRM) in the Assembly, Aurore Bergé, “we have enough elements that allow us to have an investigation”, in particular images “turned multiple times, and by journalists, and by supporters “.
“The images, you have them, they exist, and we have a lot of testimonies and images which should still enlighten” the investigators, she estimated on RMC. Asked to know if she nevertheless regretted the disappearance of some of them, M Bergé argued that it was to the police and justice “that we will have to ask the question”.