Lately French authorities registered a larger number of mysterious sightings.
Unmanned aerial vehicles have been observed in everything from nuclear power plants to the presidential palace.
Monday night was the drones first observed over the US embassy in Paris.
Later during nighttime were drones also seen at the Eiffel Tower and Place de la Concorde.
Attempted to stop them
– It can be a coordinated action, but for the time being we do not know, said a security source told French news agency AFP.
Another police sources say the agency that it has never before been observed so many drones over Paris on the same night.
The police have tried to find and identify those who controlled drones but no luck.
– We did everything we could to take those controlled drones, but we could not find them, says a source linked to the investigation.
Illegal flights over nuclear power plants
The last messages come as part of a series of such reports.
On January 20, flew a drone over the presidential palace in France – just a week after the terrorist attacks in the country.
A drone from a French manufacturer of such vehicles on display in front of a Je suis Charlie poster in the period after the terrorist attacks. Photo: Ethan Miller / AFP
In October and November last year was around 20 drones observed at nuclear power plants in France.
Nor when the drivers found .
In France, it is illegal to fly civilian drones without clearance over areas as nuclear power plants. Of the area is the no-fly zones with a radius of 2.5 km and up to an altitude of 1000 meters.
Experts told AFP that such small drones can not do any harm if they plunge in nuclear power plants that are secured for much bigger accidents.
The French government has nevertheless allocated 1.1 million euros to develop systems to detect and stop such vehicles.
Published
No comments:
Post a Comment