The office of the mayor of Paris today denied that security plans were stolen during the Olympic Games in the French capital.
A police source told AFP earlier this week that a memory stick containing plans for local Paris police during the Olympics was lost when a city administration official’s bag was stolen on a train. The clerk allegedly placed the bag in the luggage compartment above the seat and discovered it had disappeared at the crowded Gare du Nord station.
A statement issued today said preliminary results of the investigation indicated that the official had no information about the organization or deployment of security forces during the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
It was confirmed that the case of theft was reported to the police, but it was pointed out that among the lost items were “personal notes related to work in the IT service for the Road and Traffic Maintenance Service”.
The prosecutor’s office in Paris announced that the memory stick “only contained notes about traffic in Paris during the Olympics and not sensitive non-criminal information”.
