French officer claims
interior ministry made her alter Nice Attack Report
French officer claims interior ministry made her alter Nice Attack
Report
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French officer claims interior ministry made her alter Nice attack
report
Mon Jul 25, 2016 12:12AM
French policewoman Sandra Bertin gives a press conference on July 24,
2015, in Nice, southeastern France. (AFP)
A senior French police officer has claimed that the interior ministry
“harassed” her into altering a security report from the deadly terrorist attack
in Nice.
Sandra Bertin, the officer in charge of Nice's CCTV control room, told
theJournal du Dimanche newspaper on Sunday that an unnamed interior
ministry official contacted her after the attack and pressured her into
altering her report for the night of the incident.
On July 14, a truck driver plowed through a Bastille Day crowd in Nice,
killing 84 people and wounding 200 others.
Bertin claims that she was "harassed for an hour" by the
official who wanted her to detail the presence of local and national police at
the fireworks event where the carnage took place.
"The national police were perhaps there, but I couldn't see them
on the video," she said, adding, "He ordered me to put in (the
report) the specific positions of the national police which I had not seen on
the screen."
She also said that the person from the ministry told her to email her
report in a “modifiable form … so they didn’t have to type it all out again.”
France’s Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve (seen below) has
dismissed the claims and has announced that he will sue Bertin for defamation.
“It will be very useful if Madame Sandra Bertin could be questioned by
the investigators and could give them the names and positions of the people she
is accusing, the emails she is talking about and their contents,” he said in a
statement.
“Unworthy accusations are part of the virulent polemic that certain
elected representatives in Nice have wanted to encourage and feed every day
since the terrible July 14 attack,” he added.
The 31-year-old Franco-Tunisian assailant in the attack, who was later
shot dead by police, was identified as Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel.
People walk past flowers, candles and messages laid on the Promenade
des Anglais seafront in Nice on July 18, 2016, in tribute to the victims of the
deadly attack which killed 84 people on July 14. (AFP)
The Daesh Takfiri terrorist group later claimed responsibility for the
deadly attack in Nice. But, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said that no
direct evidence has been found to link the attacker to the terrorists.
The European country has been in a state of emergency since last
November, when assailants struck at least six different venues in and around
the capital Paris, leaving 130 people dead and over 350 others injured. Daesh
claimed responsibility for the horrendous assaults.
On Wednesday, the French parliament extended the country's state of
emergency for another six months.
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