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Strasbourg: Drones Delivering Food to Prisoners Pose a "Vital" Risk to Patients at the University Hospital

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For about three weeks, Civil Security and SAMU (Emergency Medical Service) helicopters have stopped landing at night at the Hautepierre University Hospital due to fears of collisions with drones destined for the Elsau prison, located just over 4 kilometers away, the Bas-Rhin prefecture announced on Monday. Emergency helicopters must now use the helipad at the New Civil Hospital, located in the city center, resulting in a 30- to 40-minute delay i…

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The suspension of night helicopter flights at the CHU in Strasbourg, caused by drones delivering detainees, poses a vital risk to patients.

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For about three weeks, Civil Security and SAMU (Emergency Medical Service) helicopters have stopped landing at night at the Hautepierre University Hospital due to fears of collisions with drones destined for the Elsau prison, located just over 4 kilometers away, the Bas-Rhin prefecture announced on Monday. Emergency helicopters must now use the helipad at the New Civil Hospital, located in the city center, resulting in a 30- to 40-minute delay i…

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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The night drone flights between Hautepierre and the Elsau arrest house in Strasbourg prevent the landing of helicopters at the CHU. Two men were tried on Tuesday on charges of complicity in an attempt to hand over an object to a detainee, with a drone

·Levallois-Perret, France
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Drones are increasingly being used in France to smuggle drugs, phones and other contraband into prisons. At a prison in Villefranche-sur-Saône, investigators estimate that 1,826 deliveries were made in less than two months, delivering more than 30 kilograms of drugs to inmates. The phenomenon has become so widespread that in Strasbourg, drones used for clandestine deliveries are even disrupting medical helicopter flights.

·Bucharest, Romania
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The multiplication of drone "deliveries" to Elsau's stopping house makes it impossible to land helicopters for three weeks at the CHU in Hautepierre, without a viable solution being found, causing the anger of many caregivers.

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BFM TV broke the news in France on Tuesday, August 18, 2026.
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