Nothing stops dealers, not even jail. During the night from Saturday to Sunday, “around 4:30 a.m.”, indicates the parquet floor of Créteil, a delivery by drone took place at the prison of Fresnes. Parcels via the air were placed in a promenade yard. “They contained four telephones, USB charger cables and two bars of soap resembling cannabis,” the prosecution told AFP.
“While crime continues to evolve technically, administrations such as the public security forces must be able to adapt their means in order to deal with these new scourges”, reacted in a press release the union FO Justice, demanding “the implementation installation of an anti-drone gun in penitentiary establishments”. The Fresnes prison, built at the end of the 19th century, has an antidrone device and a jamming device, the union recalled.
An investigation was opened, in particular for “engagement or maintenance by the remote pilot of an aircraft circulating without anyone on board above a prohibited zone”. It was entrusted to the Air Transport Gendarmerie Brigade (BGTA).