The final guidelines for the flying of ground drones will be obtained in time from the Supreme Court of Norway.
Hålogaland’s court of appeals recently dismissed the charge against the Russian and British dual citizen, a billionaire Andrei Yakunin for violating the no-fly zone.
The prosecutors had demanded an absolute prison sentence for Jakunin for the prohibited flying of a filming drone in Huippuvuori. NRK’s ie According to the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (you will switch to another service) The district court of Tromssa had rejected the charges unanimously and the court of appeal upheld the verdict.
According to the district court and the court of appeals, the flight ban imposed on Russian citizens does not apply to flying small drones. The prosecutors and the Norwegian security police have had a different opinion.
Last fall, several people who flew Russian drones in Norway were arrested and held in pretrial detention. Yakunin was imprisoned for almost two months.
Last October, the Oslo district court sentenced a Russian man to 120 days in prison for flying a filming drone in various parts of Norway dozens of times. Around the same time, the district court in Tromssa dismissed the charges against the Russian man who photographed Kirkkoniemi harbor and airport.
After the district court of Tromssa unanimously rejected the charge against Jakunin, the other prisoners were also set free.
According to the interpretation of the Norwegian security police PST and the prosecutors, the flight ban also applies to small drones. According to NRK, the prosecutor will appeal the court of appeal’s acquittal to the Supreme Court of Norway.