Military: Bundeswehr: No solution yet for unauthorized drone flights

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Bundeswehr: There is still no solution for unauthorized drone flights

The fact that the sighted drones can at least partially be attributed to Russian secret service activities is – since no one has been convicted yet – so far only a working hypothesis. photo

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Are drones flying over Bundeswehr locations illegally to spy on them? So far there is no solution for this.

The The Bundeswehr is increasingly noticing unauthorized drone overflights at its locations in Germany. A way to stop these suspected espionage activities has not yet been found. “The number of such incidents has increased recently,” a spokesman for the Bundeswehr’s Territorial Command told the dpa upon request. In this context, he also referred to the increased vigilance of soldiers with a view to possible spying attempts. According to the Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD), these attempts focus, among other things, on the training of Ukrainian soldiers in Germany.

Among other things, suspected cases were recorded in Wildflecken in Bavaria, in Grafenwöhr and in Idar-Oberstein in Rhineland-Palatinate, as well as at the Altengrabow military training area in Saxony-Anhalt. The fact that, according to dpa information, there has so far been no arrest of a drone pilot in the vicinity of a federal location may also be related to the complex responsibilities.

Members of the Bundeswehr are allowed to prevent crimes against the Bundeswehr and also detain people within the requirements of the law, according to the Territorial Command. These would then, if necessary, as well as seized drones, be handed over to the police for further investigative work. However, outside of Bundeswehr properties, the police are responsible for prosecution and, if necessary, arrest. A spokesman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior told the dpa: “In principle, the state police are responsible for police measures on the occasion of suspicious drone overflights at Bundeswehr locations.”

The fact that the sighted drones can at least partially be attributed to Russian secret service activities is – since no one has been convicted yet – so far only a working hypothesis. However, since such conspicuous drone overflights were observed at the beginning and end of training measures for Ukrainian soldiers, it is “relatively clear in which direction things are going,” MAD President Martina Rosenberg explained last fall.

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