Norway police arrest Russian for flying drone amid heightened safety By Reuters

OSLO (Reuters) – Norway police arrested a Russian man on the airport within the arctic city of Tromsoe and charged him with flying a drone, they mentioned on Saturday, marking the second such arrest in a single week.

Police seized a considerable amount of photographic gear, together with a drone and a number of other reminiscence playing cards, throughout Friday’s arrest of the 51-year-old, who had admitted to flying a drone in Norway, police mentioned.

Sanctions legal guidelines forbid Russian corporations or residents from working plane in Norway.

“Among the many seized materials now we have reviewed, now we have seen photos from the airport in Kirkenes and photos of the defence forces’ Bell helicopter,” police prosecutor Jacob Bergh mentioned in an announcement.

The Norwegian Police Safety Service (PST) has additionally been concerned within the case, Bergh mentioned.

Police are searching for a court docket order to detain the person for a four-week interval, they mentioned.

The accused advised police he entered Norway by way of the northern border level of Storskog on Thursday and was on his strategy to the arctic archipelago of Svalbard.

It marks the second arrest in a single week of a Russian citizen for flying drones in Norway, with one other man detained for an preliminary two week-period following an arrest on the Storskog border crossing.

Norway has elevated its alertness ranges following plenty of drone sightings near its oil and fuel infrastructure in latest weeks and in response to the Sept. 26 leaks on the Nord Stream fuel pipeline within the Baltic Sea.

Norway is now Europe’s largest fuel provider after a pointy discount in flows from Russia.