Police investigate drones over Bundeswehr Patriot site in Mechernich, NRW

welt.de (German)

A day after an explosives-laden drone was found at Leipzig airport, drones were sighted over a Bundeswehr site in Mechernich, North Rhine-Westphalia; police have opened an investigation. The security center reported two drones on Thursday evening; military police were deployed. The case was handed to Euskirchen police for investigation, while the Bundeswehr command declined to comment. The Mechernich site is reportedly Europe's only site of its kind; it stores Patriot systems, which Germany supplies to Ukraine. Earlier, an explosives-laden drone found at Leipzig/Halle was defused near Ukrainian cargo planes.


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