Overview
- Base security detected five drones over Île Longue around 19:30 on December 4, according to the gendarmerie.
- An anti-drone operation was launched and the marine rifle battalion fired multiple rounds, with the drones immediately brought down.
- Search operations and investigations are ongoing, with no immediate public details on who operated the devices.
- The Atlantic Maritime Prefecture and the Public Prosecutor's Office did not immediately respond to requests for comment, AFP reported.
- The restricted site services all four French nuclear-armed ballistic-missile submarines and is guarded by about 120 maritime gendarmes working with naval infantry, after a prior November overflight and a wider regional rise in drone activity that some leaders link to Moscow.