A gendarmerie lieutenant was allegedly the victim of the theft of his professional computer. The computer would contain sensitive information concerning the General Inspectorate of the National Gendarmeries.

The thief was found and then sentenced on March 1 by the Paris criminal court to seven months in prison. A Paris town hall engineer had his bag containing the plans for securing the Olympic Games stolen from a train at the Gare du Nord on February 27. The general secretary of the management of the Avicenne hospital in Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) had her computer stolen.