The director of institutional affairs of the FFF made this announcement during his hearing before the Senate.
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CCTV footage of the violence around the Stade de France during the Champions League final was not retained. These images are systematically destroyed after seven days, unless requisitioned by justice, explained Thursday, June 9 Erwan Le Prévost, the director of institutional affairs of the French Football Federation (FFF), whose delegation was heard in the Senate.
“It’s the law”told AFP the president of the Senate culture committee, Laurent Lafon. “We are surprised, the prefect took legal action very quickly, there was plenty of time to seize (these images), we have to understand what happened.” “The information we obtained (during the hearing, editor’s note) on the video images challenges us”added the chairman of the law commission, François-Noël Buffet, who co-chaired the hearing. “If it happened that they were not kept, that would pose a serious problem.”
For Senator David Assouline, “very violent images existed and they were erased seven days after the fact, why were they not requisitioned?”, he asked. Mayor of Metropolitan Liverpool, Steve Rotheram, interviewed after the FFF delegation, said that“(he) could not understand why the videos were destroyed”.
The police headquarters clarified that there is still images from the video protection plan of the police headquarters. These are “in his possession” and “are obviously always at the disposal of justice, within the framework of requisitions drawn up in a criminal investigation”. “Let’s not confuse images of the police with images of a private operator”she says.