The air transport gendarmerie had set a mousetrap after a series of reports near the Nangis aerodrome (Seine-et-Marne) The man, who admitted the facts while in police custody, was fined. The phenomenon of lasers pointed at cockpits still does not die out.

Especially since the perpetrators of these targeted ‘shootings’ most often benefit from impunity. But it still happens from time to time, as this case shows.