Prison guards using military-style anti-drone technology have foiled a plan to air-drop a dozen mobile phone devices and paraphernalia to inmates at a penitentiary on central Greece, authorities said Friday.
It was not immediately clear who had sent the telecoms equipment by drone to the prison in Larissa Thursday afternoon and who it had been intended for.
A public order ministry statement said guards spotted the incoming small aerial vehicle and activated the prison’s anti-drone system, “which successfully neutralised and brought down the drone in a prison yard, where it was recovered together with the parcel it was carrying.”
The latter was found to contain 12 phones, 21 sim cards, four wireless routers, phone chargers, memory sticks, adaptors and earplugs.
The ministry said the incident “points to the increasingly common use of modern technology by criminal networks,” as well as to authorities’ know-how in dealing with such schemes.
