fresh security fears have been raised in paris after a drone was seen hovering over the current offices of the charlie hebdo magazine the sighting was one of around a dozen reported over sensitive sites in the french capital in just one day earlier this week one of those came from a police officer who claimed he saw an unnamed aircraft flying over the offices of liberation newspaper where staff from charlie hebdo are now based after their building was targeted by islamic militants in an attack that killed 12 people new alert: a drone was seen hovering over the current offices being used by staff at the charlie hebdo satirical newspaper (above) following the terror attack on their building that killed 12 people in january  new threat: french law bans small, civilian drones from areas such as nuclear facilities, which are protected by a no fly zone that spans a 16 mile radius and a height of 1,000 metres the above drone crashed on the grass near the white house in the united states earlier this year  police pursued the drone, but lost it at the porte de montreuil, which leads to the ring road southeast of the capital however, it was later spotted at  porte de vincennes, where a fanatical accomplice of the charlie hebdo killers shot dead four people at a jewish supermarket, the daily telegraph reported another drone sighting was reported over eastern paris where witnesses saw three men retrieve the aircraft and drive off in a black car before police could arrest them, a police source said no arrests were made over the flights, which also reportedly took place near the river seine, the place de la concorde and the invalides military museum french police have vowed to track down and  arrest the operators of the drones amid fears from the public they could be used to attach explosives or toxic chemicals earlier this week, interior minister bernard cazeneuve told  parliament that some 60 drone flights over paris and over  nuclear power plants had been reported since october 5 tension: in other sightings, drones were also seen flying around the  eiffel tower earlier this year  drones were also spotted flying near the invalides military museum, where napoleon bonaparte is buried  flights over paris without authorisation from aviation  authorities are illegal, as is the use of airspace up to 1,000  metres above a nuclear site 'we need to be very vigilant on this, we're going to have to  be extremely careful,' government spokesman stephane le foll  told france info radio, referring to the drones 'the day that  we find the people who are doing this, there will be penalties we will find them, sooner or later' france is still on high alert following a series of attacks  in january that killed 20 people, including three attackers interior minister cazeneuve also told parliament he wanted  to equip police with 'new legal tools' to crack down on the  illegal use of drones in sensitive areas on tuesday, a court fined a british journalist 1,000 euros ($1,100) for flying a drone over central paris and confiscated his machine tristan redman, 34, from the qatar based network al jazeera, was arrested last month in the bois de boulogne park on the western edge of the french capital along with two other journalists the two others were released and redman pleaded guilty to flying a drone over the capital, which is illegal under french law france remains on high alert after jihadist attacks in and around the french capital in january left 17 people dead
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police officer saw aircraft flying over current office of satirical newspaper . later seen hovering over area where jihadist killed four at jewish store . police also investigating a dozen sightings across the capital on tuesday . france on high alert after terror attacks that killed 17 people in january 