Drones have been seen flying over two Swedish nuclear power plants, police said on Saturday, but have not yet made any arrests.
"Drones were observed above the nuclear power plants of Forsmark (in eastern Sweden) and Oskarshamn", in the south-east of the country, the police said on its site.
For the first, the facts occurred Friday evening in this nuclear power plant located some 140 kilometers north of Stockholm.
On the spot, the authorities, who flew over the area in a helicopter, failed to get their hands on the drone. The men dispatched to the scene saw “the drone moving around Forsmark for a while before disappearing towards Gräsö (east of the power plant, editor’s note). The police (continued) to try to locate the drone, including with their own drone, but without success”, explained the police on their site. "There is no indication that the drone dropped anything on the area or that it landed," she said.
As for the intrusion at the Oskarshamn site, the authorities did not provide any details. Preliminary investigations, conducted at the regional level, have been opened. No link has yet been established between the two incidents. According to the local press, "objects" were also seen in the air near the Ringhals nuclear power plant (west) and the decommissioned Barsebäck power plant (south), without any intrusion yet. was confirmed.
The incident comes a day after armored vehicles and dozens of armed servicemen were deployed on the streets of Visby, a port city on the Baltic Sea island of Gotland, an unusual move taken in response to increased 'Russian activity' In the region.
Troops have since been reinforced on the island while troops have been seen in Oskarshamn, according to the press.