Since the publication on April 19 of the decree authorizing the use of drones by police and gendarmes, more than 50 operations have been approved, reveals a count of the World. This Tuesday, May 16, several associations are attacking this text before the Council of State.
Choose France summit, demonstrations against pension reform and May 1, visit of Elisabeth Borne, Cannes Film Festival, French Cup final in football, urban rodeos or rave parties… The use has been approved of this aerial surveillance tool for events that would be expected, which does not exclude that its use is questioned, but also in more surprising cases.
A birthday under surveillance
The Loire-Atlantique prefecture, for example, authorized surveillance of the anniversary of the motorcycle shop of a Youtubeur with 1.4 million subscribers, Lucien Cupif, known as La Boiserie, in Sautron, near Nantes, the newspaper notes. All this for a barbecue, a mini concert, motorcycle tests and a few stands.
At the time, however, the local press headlined minor annoyances: “delays” that “disrupted traffic a bit” on a Saturday afternoon.
The world He also cites the example of demonstrations to protest against the expansion of a commercial area on farmland near Die in the Drôme. Every Sunday, the neighbors met at the future work site. This was enough to trigger the deployment of a drone, which ultimately did not take off given the low number of participants, a few dozen.
Decrees of the prefecture challenged in court
Some authorizations refer to prolonged use, such as the one granted on April 29 by the Eure-et-Loir prefecture for the flight of drones over four municipalities (Mainvilliers, Lucé, Chartres and Dreux) for a period of three months. Since then, various associations offensive the court order.
Judicial decisions have already been taken to rule on the use of drones. At the beginning of May, the Rouen administrative court thus suspended the prefectural decree authorizing the use of two drones to monitor the “Sticks on the roads” festival in Léry, in the Eure.
But in Bordeaux, a union could not cancel the summary of the May 9 demonstration in court. Appeals sometimes complicated by impossible deadlines, decrees are sometimes taken the same day, he points out The worldsuch as during President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Dijon on May 3 or to the north on May 12.
Source: BFM TV
