"It's Hard to Get Through": an "Unprecedented" Deployment of Drones to Monitor Demonstrations
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An "unprecedented deployment", denounces the Association for the Defence of Constitutional Freedoms (Adelico).
In five years, the national fleet has tripled, accounting for 965 drones for the gendarmerie, and 650 for the national police. They will still be widely used during the strikes and demonstrations on Thursday, 18 September.
In five years, the national drone fleet has tripled. While the police claim that this technology has become "indispensable to the security of major events", the defenders of public freedoms are concerned.
In five years, the national fleet has tripled, accounting for 965 drones for the gendarmerie, and 650 for the national police, according to figures provided by the authorities.
In five years, the national drone fleet has tripled, accounting for 965 drones for the gendarmerie, and 650 for the national police, according to figures reported by the authorities to the AFP.
The use of drones by the security forces, under the supervision of a decree of 2023, is generalizing for the monitoring of demonstrations on 10 and 18 September. It raises the concern of the defenders of public freedoms. Means of surveillance, detection or support for operations: in two years, these small aircraft remotely controlled and equipped with cameras, whose use requires the taking of prefectural orders, have thus become "essential" tool…
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