Elysee Palace plans stolen

Published on 22/08/2012 00:00

THIEVES who broke into a vehicle at a Paris train station made off with a USB drive containing floor plans for the presidential Elysée Palace, France’s main security agency and the Paris police 
department, the French government confirmed yesterday

A building contractor doing work on the government buildings parked and briefly left his vehicle on Saturday.

When he returned, the unencrypted electronic blueprints were gone.

In a statement, the interior ministry said the stolen documents weren’t classified and that their disappearance put nobody in any danger.