SPAD returned from Brussels a few days ago. In the grounds of the Célestins barracks, which houses the Republican Guard in Paris, some gendarmes from the Drone Support Protection Section (Spad) perform a demonstration: a small machine flies overhead, discreetly, a drone as it is. possible for anyone to acquire. But this one could be equipped with a camera or worse explosives… Moreover last Monday in Iraq, a trapped drone was neutralized by the American army above their embassy in Baghdad. Tuesday, Erbil airport in Kurdistan was targeted. In the Sahel, where the French army is engaged, drones are used by jihadist groups to prepare their attacks. In October 2016,two French special forces soldiers were injured in Erbil by a trapped flying drone that exploded once on the ground.
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In Paris, a heavy black gun without a barrel weighing several kilos in her arm, one of the gendarmes looks up.
She aims.
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