Drones will be used by 12,000 police and gendarmes to supervise the 380 processions expected throughout France. contested by the Association for the Defence of Constitutional Liberties, but essential according to Matthieu Valet, spokesman for the Independent Union of Police Commissioners.
"It's going to be an indispensable and very valuable tool to be able to pilot forces on the ground and detect risk elements much earlier," says Valet. "We already did it on Saturday at the final of the Coupe de France between Toulouse and Nantes"