the essential INFO LA DEPECHE. After a call from residents of the Beausoleil remand center in Montauban in Tarn-et-Garonne, three individuals with a drone were arrested at 2 a.m. this Saturday, September 16. Placed in police custody at the police station, the three suspects, including a minor, were finally released at the end of the day. Due to lack of sufficient evidence to incriminate them, the case was closed by the prosecution.
Suspected of having attempted to smuggle a package to inmates at the Beausoleil remand center in Montauban, three individuals, including a minor, were arrested at night by a police patrol on the night of Friday September 15 to Saturday September 16.
Informed around 2 a.m. by a local resident that a drone was flying over the prison, officials quickly went to the scene.
In a Renault Clio that they pass in Impasse Frédéric-Cayrou – just behind the prison – the police check three individuals.
Concealed near the feet of one of the passengers, the officials found a drone. During the search of the vehicle, they also found 50 euro notes in the vehicle’s briefcase.
Apprehended, the suspects were taken to the police station where they were placed in police custody. According to our information, this trio had already been checked during the week, still near the Beausoleil surrounding wall.
These young adults denied the facts. Due to lack of sufficient evidence to incriminate them, the Montauban public prosecutor’s office closed the case and released the three accused.
These untimely deliveries to prisoners complained of by residents of the penitentiary center are not a first.
Last month, two individuals were arrested after throwing packages over the prison yard wall believed to contain drugs.
This summer in Occitania, the UFAP UNSA justice union sounded the alarm on the use of drones delivering detainees to prison. The prison guards, particularly upset by his deliveries, had compared this situation to a “Uber drone thugs”.
It is difficult, in fact, for the fewer prison administration agents at night and on weekends within the remand center to detect these deliveries. Only anti-drone jamming devices would be able to put an end to it.
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