After being chased by a Rafale, a tourist plane dropped packets of methamphetamine on several small villages in the Ardèche mountains on Saturday June 24. The pilot was taken into custody.
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While a Rafale was in the process of intercepting it, the pilot of a tourist plane dropped several packets of methamphetamine on Saturday June 24 before landing on an aerodrome in Ardèche and fleeing, learned franceinfo from a source close to the file, confirming information from the Dauphiné Libéré. The pilot who was finally arrested is known for customs offenses with narcotics.
According to the first elements of the investigation, this plane was flying illegally over the Fessenheim nuclear power plant (Haut-Rhin) on Saturday at the start of the afternoon when the national air operations center ordered the pilot to comply. A Rafale interceptor fighter took off before also ordering the plane to obey the injunctions, without success.
The pilot arrested by the GIGN
Arrived above the Ardèche sky, the pilot of the Rafale then realized that the tourist plane was dropping packages in the void before landing his machine on the aerodrome of Aubenas at 3:30 p.m. The pilot threatened with death the employees of the aerodrome who approached him and abandoned his plane while fleeing on foot.
It was not until later in the evening, shortly after 9 p.m., that the pilot was seen near the aerodrome, he was then arrested by the GIGN antenna in Orange (Vaucluse). The suspect was then taken into custody, he is a man of Polish nationality.
The packages dropped in flight were found in small villages in the Ardèche mountains, in particular in Mars and Lachapelle sous Chanéac, specifies a source close to the file at France Bleu Drôme Ardèche. It is methamphetamine, a synthetic drug that provides effects similar to cocaine.