A drone was neutralised by jamming its control system as it flew close to Fort Brégançon on Monday, the French press reported. President Macron and his wife are currently staying at the head of state’s summer residence.
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The craft fell into the sea after being neutralised by jamming signals, the Prefecture of the Var said. The drone was neutralised, that is to say that the signals from its controller were scrambled. The identity of the person flying the machine is not known.
An investigation was opened by the prosecutor’s office in Toulon for “overflight with unmanned aircraft of a prohibited area.”
Monaco has installed a similar system to down any drones flying over the Principality without permission.
On Sunday at noon, a 12-year-old boy was swept away by the waters of the Loire at Jouet-sur-Aubois, in the Cher, on the sidelines of a Sunday picnic. On Sunday night, a 17-month-old child lost his life in a family pool in Lot-et-Garonne.
These tragedies are far from isolated cases. Between June 1 and July 26, 251 people died by drowning, nearly four deaths per day in France, Le Figaro daily reports.
As of July 26, 1,139 drownings had been reported since the beginning of the summer, in metropolitan France or in the French overseas departments and territories. The sea is proving to be the most dangerous locale for bathers, while 34 percent of accidents occur there, followed by pools where 29 percent of accidents occur. Family swimming pools, often unsupervised, have the most fatal drownings according to the survey: 103 in two months.
Children under six years are the first victims, often, Public Health notes, escaping the supervision of their parents or because of a lack of safety devices. “A child can drown noiselessly, in less than three minutes, in 20 centimetres of water,” said the public establishment, which advises, in addition to not leaving the children’s eyes when swimming, to equip them with armbands and teach them to swim as soon as possible.
Adults are more likely to drown at sea, due to imprudence, discomfort or because the victims did not know how to swim well enough. Every summer there are about 500 deaths from drowning in France, children and adults.
AS Monaco starts season with new online ticketing system
AS Monaco’s first home game of the 2018/2019 season will be the first league game for a new online ticketing system at the club. The match will be played at Lille on Saturday, August 18.
The first Ligue 1 game of the season is before that, away to Nantes on August 11, starting at 17:00.
The club’s website says that the online payment system is 100% secure, and credit and debit card details are not stored. A number of special offers and family tickets will continue to be available only at the ticket booths at the stadium.
Speed limit to be reduced between Nice and Antibes
A new 90kph limit on the A8 between Antibes and Nice Saint-Isidore will come into force on October 1. The announcement came from the president of Alpes-Department Charles Angel Ginésy.
A previously-planned variable speed limit, to deal with traffic during peak hours, was abandoned when highway operator Escota complained of the implementation cost and proposed an increase in tolls to pay for it.
However, it appears that the local authorities would still prefer the variable speed limit, and have asked the central government to apply pressure to Escota.
McLaren Senna supercars are reaching customers around the world. Top Gear Motoring Editor Ollie Marriage took one on a 1,500-mile trip to Monaco, motor1.com reports.
Marriage’s trip began at Estoril in Portugal where Ayrton Senna won his first Formula 1 Grand Prix. The 1,500-mile journey took Marriage through Portugal, Spain, and France to the Principality, the place Senna called home.
The Senna defaults to Sport mode on the motorway, but even changing it to Comfort doesn’t make much of a difference. According to Marriage, the car feels much more at home on the track.
However, the twisting roads of the Pyrenees mountain range that separate Spain and France are a good backup. Marriage praises the Senna, saying its a joy to drive, and in the real world, it feels ridiculously fast.
He does note a hint of understeer, but out on real roads, active aerodynamics aren’t doing much of the work.
When McLaren debuted the Senna, it looked ready to dominate at the race track. But Marriage’s 1,500-mile road trip proves owners can take the car on long road trips and still enjoy everything it has to offer.
It may drone a bit on the highway, beat up your lower back, or make your rear end go numb after a while, but once you find those twisting mountain roads, you won’t care about any of the car’s deficiencies.
The McLaren Senna is a 789-horsepower supercar that looks at home on the track. But if you don’t want trek to your local raceway every weekend just to enjoy everything the car has to offer, you could find some twisty roads.
Then again, you have to own one, and with only 500 being built, that’d be difficult. Not only do you have to find one for sale, but you also have to come up with the £750,000 (approximately $837,000 in the U.S).
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