CCTV footage that may have justified – or undermined - the controversial claim by the French authorities that 30-40,000 Liverpool fans descended on the Champion's League final in Paris with fake tickets, has been lost.
Reports in France suggest the authorities failed to obtain the video recordings from the Stade de France within the legal time limit, and they have now been deleted.
The French interior minister, Gerald Darmanin, was heavily criticised for peddling 'fanciful' claims that up to 70 per cent of all tickets sold for the mismanaged match at the Stade de France, between Liverpool and Real Madrid, were fakes.