So that his neighbors do not connect to his Wi-Fi, a Clermontois has transformed his entire neighborhood into a white zone with a wave jammer.
An unusual story told by the National Frequency Agency (ANFR) in a report published Wednesday, November 17.
The affair starts this summer, when the ANFR receives "
in the space of a few days
" three alerts signaling a jamming of the telephone network, Wi-Fi and GPS.
Messages from two different mobile operators.
The story is immediately taken seriously by the agency.
She decides to quickly conduct her investigation in a huge hunting ground: Clermont-Ferrand.
“
It remained to locate precisely the source of the interference - which in this city of more than 140,000 inhabitants was akin to looking for a needle in a haystack!
“Laughs the agency.
The object hidden in the TV cabinet
After investigating, the services of the wave regulator ended up finding the place where the disturbances came from. It is the apartment of a private individual housed in a nine-storey building. To reach civilians, the call to officers of the Search and Intervention Brigade (BRI) is necessary. In all "
6 BRI police officers, hooded, helmets and armed with assault rifles
" were dispatched to the suspect. They enter the accommodation concerned without incident. The jammer is finally found, installed "
in the drawer of a TV cabinet
". At the time of the first questions, the owner of the box gives himself up. He claims to have wanted "to
prevent neighbors from connecting to Wi-Fi on the box in his apartment
".
Simply.
A neighborhood dispute that turned the whole neighborhood into a white zone, jamming the GPS signal, Wi-Fi and mobile data.
The ANFR recalls that the law "
purely and simply prohibits radio jammers
".
The possession of these devices is punishable by a criminal sanction of up to six months' imprisonment and a fine of 30,000 euros.
The fate of this specific holder is still unknown at this time.
