Posted on 02/25/2015 12:44:00 PM PST by Citizen Zed
The journalists -- all foreign nationals -- were taken into custody on Wednesday afternoon after police saw a drone flying in the Bois de Boulogne woods in western Paris, Paris prosecutors’ spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre said. It was unclear what the trio was trying to accomplish, she said.
Officials with Qatar-based Al-Jazeera did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The journalists can be held for a maximum of 24 hours under French law. Flying drones without a license in France is illegal and carries a maximum one-year prison sentence and a 75,000 euro fine.
Wednesday’s incident comes on the heels of two consecutive nights of unidentified drones flying over the Eiffel Tower, the French Senate, the Gare de l’Est train station and other key landmarks in the city, including the US embassy.
An inquiry has been launched into the incidents. It is still not known who was behind those flights, how many objects there were in total and even whether they were all coordinated.
Last month a drone caused worry after being sighted flying over the Elysée Palace, the residence of President François Hollande - following dozens of sightings of drones over nuclear plants and military installations.
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They flew their drone over nuke reactors.
They’re muzzies.
They needed to be apprehended by the authorities.
The need a date with Le Rasoir Nationale.
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