Curious burglary at headquarters of Socialist Party

The Ivry building was visited on January 2, presumably by someone who was familiar with the area and was looking for specific information. Elements of the membership file would have been taken.

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The Socialist Party has suffered a curious heist (PS) at its headquarters in Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne) in full truce for confectioners. As revealed by Le Canard enchaîné on Wednesday January 6, the premises he had acquired after leaving rue de Solférino was burgled on January 2. The traces left and the nature of the items stolen do not seem to indicate that it was a villainous act.

The hooded intruder and covered with a beanie indeed seemed to know exactly what was happening. he was looking for. According to surveillance camera footage, he entered by jumping the portal and breaking a pane. He then meticulously visited the offices of Olivier Faure, first secretary of the PS, and those of his chief of staff and chief of staff. In this all-glass and transparent space, it is however difficult, when you do not know the premises, to know which office belongs to whom, as the premises are anonymous.

The details of the facts are puzzling. . In the first secretary’s lair, the man peeled through the personal notebooks left on the glass table. In that of his closest associates, he took out files and notebooks and searched computers. The thief left with five or six Macintoshes under his arm. The cash lying around one of the desks – a hundred euros – was not touched. Nor are the video equipment and other televisions stored in a neighboring office.

“It looks like a targeted burglary whose search was to look at the contents of the computers of the relatives of the first secretary”, notice a frame. The national secretary for the elections confirms the discomfort: “The person has explored the most political offices looking for something specific. It questions …”, remarks Pierre Jouvet, spokesman for the PS.

Sensitive data

Management is trying to minimize the impact of the theft. In his eyes, mowing is weird, but inconsequential: “It’s a funny theft but we don’t have much to deplore”, assures Olivier Faure. “The stolen computers were down, or did not contain anything important and all our data is safe in the cloud”, underlines a relative of Olivier Faure. Not even bad, then. The party filed a complaint, Thursday, January 7, by attaching the videotapes.

However, it seems that the theft is less harmless than it seems. According to our information, two computers containing sensitive data were taken: in one, elements of the membership file; in the other, notes on the political strategy of the PS, minutes of meetings and other details on the meetings of the first secretary. Amazement rose through the ranks when the first to arrive realized: “What was stolen says a lot about us.”

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