Inconvenient but effective cameras.
An individual was arrested in the Lannoy district of Roubaix when he had just damaged a CCTV camera.
To achieve his ends, the respondent had used a rather original means.
The city of Roubaix has a formidable video protection system.
Distributed throughout the territory of the municipality, 300 cameras are connected to an urban supervision center where officials scrutinize the images 24 hours a day.
And on April 23, around 2 a.m., the municipal police officers on duty witnessed a rather mind-blowing scene.
On their screens, they saw a drone to which a "flaming rope" was attached moving near a camera in an attempt to destroy it.
He will have to reimburse his damages in full.
The individual who was piloting the machine had probably forgotten that he could be observed and identified thanks to the same camera that he wanted to make blind.
The vandal had even less of a chance as a municipal police patrol was hiding not far from there.
The latter was informed by the urban supervision center of the facts in progress and the officials arrived quickly while the man was still on his business.
He did try to flee, leaving his drone behind.
In vain.
He was arrested after a brief chase and taken into custody.
In addition to the criminal penalties, the respondent will have to "fully reimburse the costs of this degradation", it was declared to the municipality which filed the complaint.
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