Surveillance of the port of Cherbourg. Three additional months for drones

The border police of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (Manche) has been equipped, for a year, with two drones with thermal function, to strengthen the port area surveillance.

Three more months

The prefect of Manche, Xavier Brunetière, authorized Tuesday January 7, 2025 “the capture, recording and transmission of images by means of airborne cameras with thermal function installed on aircraft, allowing rapid intervention day or nightout thanks to location information precise. »

This authorization is granted for a period of three additional months, strictly limited to the border area from Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, with the ZAR and its immediate surroundings. Where migrants are used to evolving.

A phenomenon under surveillance

« The migratory phenomenon could be expected to get worse from here winter 2025 with the arrival, via piggyback, of convoys of trailers from the southwest of Francethus multiplying the risk of intrusion by this new access route to the port area”, specifies the decree while recalling that “these intrusions into restricted access zones (ZAR) give rise to repeated attacks to the safety of people and property ; what countless damages are committed by candidates for exile on the surrounding fences (cutting of gates and barbed wire) and heavy goods vehicles (destruction of cargo and cut tarpaulins) with considerable harm pour the operator of the port and transport companies ; what these recurring offenses also lead to episodes of physical violencebetween truck driversand migrants. »

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