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5:34 a.m.: France's top court bans drone surveillance in Paris for enforcing restrictions
Police have used unmanned aerial vehicles with surveillance cameras in the French capital since mid-March to ensure people were complying with containment measures imposed to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. However, the Paris-based Council of State decided that it"constitutes a serious and manifestly unlawful infringement of privacy rights," according to an order made public Monday in response to a lawsuit filed earlier this month by civil liberties groups.
This file photo taken on Feb. 27, 2015, shows an inoperative drone near the Eiffel Tower in Paris. France's highest administrative court, the Council of State, has prohibited authorities from using surveillance drones in Paris to monitor public compliance of coronavirus-related restrictions, according to an order made pubic on May 18, 2020.
Earlier this month, France began to gradually emerge from a nationwide lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the virus. Some 1.5 million elementary and primary school students returned to classrooms across the country last week.Italy reported less than 100 new deaths from the novel coronavirus on Monday for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
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