CCTV footage from Champions League final ‘deleted’

CCTV footage from the Stade de France during the Champions League final last month has been deleted, a commission at the French Senate investigating the fiasco heard on Thursday. The French football federation (FFF) revealed video surveillance from the ground had been destroyed-in line with French law that stipulates it must be destroyed within seven days unless it is subject to a warrant from judicial authorities. “We’re surprised,” the Senate commission’s co-president, Laurent Lafon, told AFP, adding that an investigation was opened the day after the game.
“There was plenty of time to request them (the images). We need to understand what happened.”