
STOCKHOLM (TASS): S-wedish police have rece-ived about 200 signals of unidentified drone flights over protected sites, including several nuclear power plants (NPPs) and two airports. Law enforcement officials say there is no evidence that a foreign power is behind any of these incidents, Dagens Nyheter reported on Saturday.
“Of the approximately 200 incidents that we have investigated, we have not been able to see this [drones belonging to a foreign country],” Per Engs-tröm, head of the drone incident investigation depa-rtment, told the newspaper.
Most of the cases did not have any continuation, since, as it turned out, they were either about authorized flights, or about some other objects mistaken for drones. Investigation of about 30 received signals is ongoing. Those concerning the nuclear power plant have been handed over to the SEPO security police.
“We deal with protected objects that are of particular importance for the infrastructure and, therefore, the security of the country. In some cases, power supply failures,” Deputy Chief Prosecutor Hans Irman, who is investigating at SEPO, told SVT.
On January 18, Swedish Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist, in an interview with the Aftonbladet newspaper, did not rule out that the drones seen over the nuclear power plant and the airports of Kiruna and Luleå could, in principle, belong to another state and be “from the arsenal of a foreign power.” Police said they were investigating the sighting of unidentified drones over Kiruna and Luleå airports on January 13 and 14, respectively. On January 14, drones were also seen flying over the Forsmark, Oskarshamn and Ringhals nuclear power plants.
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