In this article the Daily Mail has been accused of paying €50,000 (£35,000) to obtain video of one of the terrorist attacks in Paris that had been encrypted by French police to prevent it being made public. he video, shared 16,000 times since being published on 18th of November. The freelance journalist said he heard the cafe’s owner telling the Daily Mail team at least four or five times that the police had said the video was covered by confidentiality rules covering a police investigation and was not to leave the premises. This is denied by the Mail. Given the sum the Mail representatives insisted on exclusivity and insisted that the hard disk containing the video be destroyed “in front of them, smashed on the ground” This would show that the daily mail wanted to hide that they got this from the footage and leave no evidence of this.
1. Aoudia told the Guardian: “While I was there, the police showed up and asked to see the CCTV.
2. A version of the Daily Mail’s footage was temporarily embedded on the Guardian website but has now been removed.
3. Guardian that the Mail representative had been told about the need for a “hacker” when obtaining the footage. Part of his film, shot secretly, shows a French speaker talking in English about a computer expert who is “going to come ... in an hour .... like a hacker”.
My opinion Daily mail should just come out for pay and they wanted to show there readers the footage and if was illegal to take the footage from the police then they should face the punishment as to the police wanting to fix the problem and know what to do. This CCTV footage should of been authorised at least and it wasnt because police wanted it and the daily mail should respected that i understand that French and international media outlets and provided a vital perspective on a massive global news story.
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