UEFA are understood to be incredulous that the vital CCTV footage at the Stade de France, which could have shed light on alleged police ineptitude in organising Liverpool's Champions League final, has been deleted, piling further pressure on the French authorities to explain why their operation went disastrously wrong.
However, in a breakthrough that could reveal the mistakes of the local police, The Mail on Sunday can reveal that France's main rail operator SNCF kept all of their video footage from the day of the event.
A spokesperson for the company, whose headquarters are adjacent to the Stade de France Saint-Denis RER station, said: 'CCTV footage is normally automatically erased after three days.