Source: Le Parisien

The prefecture of police is advocating for a durable legal framework authorizing the use of algorithmic video surveillance in Paris, arguing that artificial intelligence could have changed the outcomes of incidents such as a Louvre break-in, an assault on the RER, and an abandoned bag. Authorities present these scenarios as examples where AI-enabled tools might "make the difference," and they position themselves as stakeholders in the debate over the "Ripost" bill, which is due for discussion in the Senate in mid‑May.

At the police headquarters on Île de la Cité, the command room at level -4 streams live footage of locations across the capital, including tourists on the Pont d’Iéna, a camp under the périphérique at Porte de Montmartre, and the perimeter of the Foire du Trône. In the CCOS control room refurbished in 2022, operators reviewing a complaint in which a man says he was rubbed by an unknown person on the RER B used station cameras to trace the scene and observed that the alleged aggressor wore a distinctive clothing accessory. The reporting frames these operational examples as support for extending algorithmic videoprotection under the forthcoming legislative debate.