Waking up a bit late.

While the world of football and the political class are rising up after discovering that the CCTV images taken during the violence at the Stade de France had been deleted, we learn that justice would have finally asked for them.

When ?

Thursday night, just after the destruction of the tapes was made public… Too late, then.

"We have indeed sent a requisition, even if these videos will not be very useful for our investigation of counterfeit notes, they will be more useful for violence and assaults," said a source familiar with the matter, confirming information from Le Monde.

This request was sent by the Astute Delinquency Repression Brigade (BRDA) of the Parisian judicial police, charged by the Bobigny prosecution with investigating the fake ticket office on the evening of the Real Madrid-Liverpool final, preceded by scenes of chaos around the Stade de France.

The Bobigny prosecutor's office assures that he was unaware of the deadline

Asked about the temporality of this request, while an official of the French Football Federation (FFF) had revealed a few hours earlier during his hearing in the Senate that the images had been destroyed after seven days for lack of requisition, the source said he "still hopes" to get them back, without further details.

Thursday evening's information "according to which these images would not be kept for one month, the maximum legal duration authorized, but only a few days - information that we did not know - led us to request them all the same", explained the Bobigny prosecution. .

"We are awaiting feedback to find out if these images have been deleted or retained," he added.

All would not be lost, however.

The Paris police headquarters indicated on Twitter that the videos of the Stade de France still existed.

“The images in the possession of the police headquarters are obviously still at the disposal of justice, within the framework of requisitions drawn up in a criminal investigation.

Do not confuse images of the police with images of a private operator,” she wrote.

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