Flying the machines without a license in France is illegal and carries a maximum one-year prison sentence and a $85,000 fine.”(The authorities) are able to monitor phone and text messages, but not to detect where the signal (of drones) which fly over the nerve centers of the capital,” said to the media Christophe Naudin, a criminologist who specializes in aerial security. He appreciated that the drones seen in the nighttime skies above Paris on Monday night into Tuesday morning “weren’t toys” and cost thousands of dollars. However, those drones are small and incapable to transport explosives or dangerous weapons. Because the alert level in France was maintained high after the recent bloody jihadist attempt in Paris, the general supposition is linked to the hope of somebody to increase fear and to taunt authorities.
