In total, the device was carrying three packages containing cannabis, cell phones and USB chargers.
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A drone carrying mobile phones and narcotics landed on Sunday October 23 in a courtyard of the Fresnes prison (Val-de-Marne), the Créteil prosecutor’s office announced on Monday. According to the public prosecutor, the facts took place “around 4:30 a.m. on the night from Saturday to Sunday”.
“The three packages were apprehended: they contained four phones, USB charger cables and two bars of soap resembling cannabis”, said the prosecution. 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.
“While crime continues to evolve technically, administrations such as 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, claiming “the installation of an antidrone gun within penitentiary establishments”. The Fresnes prison, built at the end of the 19th century, has an antidrone device and a jamming device, the union recalled.
In 2018, an investigation was opened after two drones flew over Fresnes prison, one of the largest in France. More recently, in July, a 19-year-old man was sentenced to 20 months in prison for having delivered telephones and telephone accessories, cannabis and also cosmetic products by drone to Sequedin remand center, near Lille (North). These illegal deliveries had lasted several weeks before being discovered.