In France, the issue of protecting the 2024 Olympics venues from drones has been raised
Member of the French Parliament Gisèle Leloui raised the issue of protecting the venues for the 2024 Olympic Games (OG2024) from a possible drone attack. In her address to the head of the French Ministry of Defense, Sebastien Lecornu, the deputy admitted the possibility of such an attack during the Olympics and called on the government to study the relevant risks. Lenta.ru studied the text of the corresponding parliamentary request from Lelui.
The parliamentarian stressed that the French armed forces and law enforcement agencies have “slowly entered the era of drones.” “Drones pose a serious problem for public safety and for the Armed Forces, since they are very easily acquired and can be used maliciously in a variety of ways, for example, for purposes ranging from disrupting sporting events to their use during a terrorist attack,” the author of the appeal emphasized.
She added that the country’s Air Force and Aerospace Forces reserves will be mobilized to protect the OI locations. According to her, France’s drone fleet is estimated at three million.
“The Ukrainian conflict showed that their (drones – approx. “Tapes.ru”) can also be easily turned into weapons, explosives or nuclear weapons (nuclear, radiological, biological and chemical weapons – approx. “Tapes.ru”), which could turn the ceremony on July 26, 2024 into a disaster, especially if it is a swarm of drones,” Lelui said.
The Air Force has chosen an ambitious PARADE system that can detect drones in controlled areas and jam their radio and GPS signals. To test this anti-drone solution designed to ensure the security of the 2024 Games, the military conducted Exercise Coubertin LAD 2 between 11 and 15 March 2024, which revealed some of the shortcomings of this device, given that only one of the three dangerous ones was detected drones
In this regard, she asks whether the French Ministry of Defense plans to take additional steps to further equip personnel to combat drones and whether the MoD is considering measures to adapt the devices it already has at its disposal.
Earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron made a statement about the security threat at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games, which is to be held on the Seine River.
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“In the event of a security threat, the opening ceremony could be limited to the Trocadéro or even the Stade de France as a precaution,” Macron said, adding that all security services would be mobilized a few days before the event and a security perimeter would be established.
The Paris Olympics will take place from July 26 to August 11, 2024.
Source: Lenta
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