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Fireworks Smugglers Now Also Being Fought with Drones

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Like every year, people are also traveling to places like Belgium to stock up on illegal fireworks. The police in Brabant are fed up with this and have, for the first time, deployed drones to catch these people.
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Like every year, people are also traveling to places like Belgium to stock up on illegal fireworks. The police in Brabant are fed up with this and have, for the first time, deployed drones to catch these people.

In the lead-up to New Year's Eve, police conducted a major checkpoint at the Belgian border near Roosendaal on Saturday. Drones were used to track fireworks buyers with Dutch license plates arriving at the fireworks store, after which officers in unmarked vehicles inspected the vehicles for the purchased goods and confiscated them. Because the drones can zoom in very closely, the officers know exactly who has shopped at the fireworks store acros…

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Omroep Brabant broke the news in on Saturday, December 27, 2025.
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