During hearings to clear up the events that took place on the sidelines of the Champions League final, the Senate learned on Thursday, that some videos had been erased, for lack of being requisitioned.
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The senators intended to shed light on the incidents at the Stade de France on May 28. But over the hearings of the officials of the Champions League final, the situation becomes more complex. “The more we advance, the more emerging gray areas and new information challenges us,” sums up Michel Savin, Senator Les Républicains (LR) of Isère. Thursday, June 9, parliamentarians learned destroyed with amazement, failing to have been requisitioned, video surveillance images of the Stade de France.
The officials of the French Football Federation (FFF) were invited to explain the “dysfunctions seen by the millions of viewers”, as made by the President of the Senate Culture and Education Commission, Laurent Lafon. Either scenes of panic near the Dyonisian enclosure, supporters sprayed with tear gas, others trying to enter without ticket; And, finally, a delayed kick-off of thirty-six minutes before the eyes of hundreds of millions of viewers.
If they have filmed the whole evening, the video surveillance cameras of the Stade de France will not allow the situation to clarify. “The images are available for seven days. They are then automatically destroyed. We should have had a requisition to provide them with the various populations, said the director of institutional relations of the FFF, Erwan Le Prévost. The day, the images are extremely violent. “
An announcement that surprised the senators, while the order to maintain the order implemented during this match having opposed Liverpool to Real Madrid is the subject of a lively controversy. “It means that images that you consider very violent existed and that there was no request from the authorities, in particular the prefecture. (…) There are evidence that was destroyed by, At least, incompetence, “said the socialist senator from Paris David Assouline.
The images claimed… this Thursday
Why did the Bobigny prosecutor’s office, which opened an investigation on Tuesday, May 31 on fraud for false tickets following a report from the police prefect, did not claim these images? “The only survey of which the prosecution is officially seized concerns false tickets, and there is no need for the FFF images to identify traffickers,” says a source close to the investigation, nevertheless surprised by the destruction of the images . “The legal deadline for the conservation of video -surveillance is one month” at the Stade de France, justifies this same source.
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