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Investigators are now deprived of the images shot by the Stade de France surveillance cameras on May 28. They were deleted from the Federation server, and no one thought to ask for them.
Thursday, June 9, in the Senate, the representative of the French Football Federation, Erwan Le Prévost, explained that the CCTV images filmed inside the Stade de France were not kept. “The images are available for seven days. After seven days, they are automatically destroyed, and the only way is that we should have had a requisition to provide them to the different populations”did he declare.
For more than ten days, images of crowd movements, thefts, assaults and clashes with the police have caused a scandal. According to the senators, the cameras of the Stade de France would have could bring crucial elements for the investigation. David Assouline, senator (PS) from Paris, castigated on Friday morning, on France infoa lack of coordination “unbelievable“. “If there is a leader, and he (…) takes responsibility for this bitter failure, what is he doing there?”, he also said, targeting Didier Lallement, the Paris police chief. 220 cameras film the stadium 24 hours a day, seven days a week.