Olympic security fears as TOP SECRET police plans for Paris Games including for terror target Stade de France are stolen
TOP secret police plans for the Paris Olympic Games have been stolen triggering serious security fears in France.
The intel breach has alarmed officials as the lost data contain key security details – including about the Stade de France, one of the targets of the Paris terrorist attacks in 2015.
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A bag containing a laptop computer and two USB memory sticks were stolen from a city hall official from a train at the capital’s Gare du Nord station on Monday evening.
The official, an engineer from Paris City Hall, confirmed the lost data includes police plans for securing the 2024 Summer Olympics – specifically the Stade de France.
They contain technical details about how the forces and law and order will protect visitors, including thousands of Brits, who attend the sporting showpiece over July and August.
An investigating source said: “A bag containing the computer and USB sticks was stolen from a train left in a luggage rack.
“The theft was discovered by the owner of the bag when he got to Gare du Nord on Tuesday evening.”
Police sources said Tuesday the engineer had put the bag in the luggage compartment above his seat and discovered the theft when he decided to change trains due to a delay.
An investigation is being conducted by the regional transport police.
Two thousand municipal police officers will be deployed during the Games, with a total of around 35,000 security forces expected to be on duty each day for the Olympics that start on July 26.
The Stade de France national stadium was the centre of the first of the terrorist attacks in November 2015, one of the darkest pages in France’s history.
Three suicide bombers struck outside the stadium where France was playing Germany in an international football-friendly match.
Two other suicide bombers wearing identical suicide vests detonated them outside the stadium shortly afterwards.
90 people lost their lives during the Bataclan massacre
The Paris 2015 terrorist attacks
THE Paris terror attacks happened on November 13, 2015, when ISIS terrorists launched a series of coordinated strikes across the city.
Suicide bombers struck at the Stade de France during an international friendly game between France and Germany.
Blood-thirsty gunmen stormed cafes and restaurants across the city shooting civilians in a frenzied rampage.
But the worst-hit target was the Bataclan theatre where the terrorists killed 90 people – including Brit Nick Alexander.
The Bataclan massacre happened during a sold-out concert by rock band Eagles of Death Metal when gunmen opened fire on the crowd from the mezzanine.
The attackers took around 100 people hostage before police shot one of the gunmen while the other two detonated their suicide belts.
In total three groups of terrorists launched six separate attacks claiming the lives of 130 people and injuring 352 others.
