Overview

• An anonymous whistleblower alerted media in spring that databases assembled by Ciotti’s team contained sensitive details on hundreds of residents without their consent.
• Media outlets Libération and Nice-Matin reported that the alleged files tracked residents’ religious affiliations, disabilities and property status under 'influential' labels.
• Judicial police executed searches on August 12 at locations in Nice, including computer data seizures, supported by the Nice public prosecutor’s office.
• The CNIL confirmed it has received a complaint regarding these alleged fiching practices under French data protection laws.
• Ciotti and his team have declined to comment publicly as he weighs a potential mayoral bid in late August, heightening local political scrutiny.