Minister: Natural for government to take drone reports seriously

Justice Minister Nicolai Wammen stated that it was natural for the Danish government and authorities to take the situation involving potential drones over Copenhagen Airport very seriously last September. This comes after Copenhagen police announced they could neither prove nor disprove the presence of drones in the airport's airspace on September 22 last year. The minister's comments were made in a written response to Ritzau, following the police's press conference. Wammen pointed to a backdrop of cyberattacks targeting multiple European airports and airspace violations in Poland as reasons for the heightened alert. Additionally, an upcoming EU summit in Copenhagen, which would host European heads of state and government, was scheduled for the time of the incident. "I therefore believe that it was completely natural for the authorities and the government to take the situation very seriously," Wammen wrote. The police investigation into the possible drone observations concluded without definitive proof of their presence.

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I therefore believe that it was completely natural for the authorities and the government to take the situation very seriously.