the destruction of the images of the surveillance videos revives the controversy

Thursday, June 9, the Senate experienced a scene of agitation. Erwan Le Prevost, a representative of the French Football Federation, has launched a new scandal over the incidents that took place during the Champions League final on May 28. It concerns CCTV images around the Stade de France. “The images are available for seven days. After seven days they are automatically destroyed and the only way [de les récupérer]is that we should have had a requisition to provide them to the different populations”, said Erwan Le Prevost. The authorities did not request video surveillance of the images which shocked the whole world.

To obtain camera images and keep them, a judicial police officer (OPJ) or a prosecutor must request them via a judicial requisition, that is to say an official letter. This was done for the cameras around the stadium, which belong to the police. On the other hand, the investigators did not request the images from the private company of the Stade de France, which manages 220 cameras, nor from the RATP, so they were purged. Only those of the SNCF have been kept.