A man born in 2001 was sentenced on Friday March 1 by the Paris criminal court to seven months in prison after the theft of an engineer's bag containing data on the Olympic Games, Le
Figaro
learned from a judicial source, confirming information from
BFMTV
.
The criminal court issued a committal warrant against him.
Tried in immediate appearance, the defendant was already known to the courts for thefts committed on public transport.
Tuesday February 27, a police source indicated that the bag of a Paris town hall engineer containing a computer and two USB keys where the security plans for the Olympic Games were stored by the Parisian municipal police had been stolen the evening before on a train at Gare du Nord.
This engineer had put his bag in the luggage compartment above his seat and then noticed that it had disappeared.
Notes related to traffic
On Wednesday, the Paris prosecutor's office clarified that the USB key contained in the engineer's bag
“only contained notes related to traffic in Paris during the Olympic Games, and not on sensitive security devices”
.
The public prosecutor deplored
“hasty publications”
in the press.
The stolen computer equipment
“contained notes for internal use, relating to his work on the IT mission of the roads and travel department
,” the Paris town hall detailed in a press release.
To prevent an intrusion into its computer system, the Town Hall specified that it had carried out
“all necessary resets”
.