YOU GUYS ARE ALL JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS.
The only reason why the band was going to have a press conference in Nice was because someone found the 'stolen' HTDAAB CD.
The cops down there have arrested three squid fishermen and have been holding them until the band had a chance to come back down there and smack the shit out of them.
According to reliable sources, the squid fishermen had grabbed the CD while Edge was getting his favorite bbq'd squid on a stick on the beach during the video shoot. The three fishermen have been playing the disc on boat late at night to atract the squid, and the equivalent of the French Coast Guard heard it, and caught them soon after it happened.
They have been kept in a holding cell in the basement of an old monestary on the coast, and have only been allowed to watch the Vertigo shows on CCTV.
All this was going to be announced today with a boxing ring set up in the center of Nice. Although the fight would be unfair 3 vs. four, Chirac thought it would be fine...