The army of Belgium is investigating the appearance of drones on the night of Thursday to Friday over the Belgian military base of Elsenborn, near the country’s border with Germany, something that the European Commission considered a sign of the “risk” to which the entire EU is exposed. Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken confirmed the incident to the newspaper ‘Le Soir’, although the politician was unable to specify the exact number of devices that had been detected. The municipality of Elsenborn had indicated this morning that a drone had been used in its territory to search for a lost horse, but Francken ruled out that explanation and underlined the suspicious and unknown nature of the presence of unmanned aerial vehicles, according to ‘Le Soir’. The Belgian minister also said that the drones were observed between 1:00 and 2:00 a.m. this Friday. The event occurs after airspace violations have taken place in countries such as Poland, Romania, or Estonia in recent weeks. In addition, the sighting of drones last night forced the temporary interruption of operations at Munich airport, in southern Germany, which prevented the takeoff of 17 flights, while another 15 that were to land were diverted to four other airports, the airport manager reported in a statement this Friday. “On the night of October 2, the German air traffic control service (DFS) restricted and subsequently interrupted flight operations at Munich Airport from 22:18 local time (20:18 GMT) due to several drone sightings, it indicated. In that context, European Union leaders outlined this Wednesday a common “anti-drone” system to intercept the growing threats of that type coming from Moscow, at an informal summit in Copenhagen. This Friday, at the daily press conference of the European Commission, spokesman Thomas Regnier stated that the presence of drones over Belgium “shows once again that the entire European Union is at risk”.
You may be interested in: “El Misionero del 27” wanted for assaults surrenders to the Police
