Question 8469 — air transport

Summary

Mr. Charles Alloncle draws the attention of the Minister of State, Minister of the Interior, to the security vulnerabilities of civil aeronautical infrastructures, following an act of sabotage which damaged fifteen aircraft in the immediate vicinity of Montpellier-M Méditerranée airport. During the night of May 19 to 20, 2025, several individuals illegally entered the Montpellier airport area, after having cut the fences of security. Fifteen light aircraft, mainly twin-engine Diamond DA42s used for training professional pilots, were set on fire, causing the destruction of four aircraft and seriously damaging the others. The damage is estimated at more than three million euros, while the training activities of ESMA, the flight school that owns the aircraft, are largely disrupted. While ESMA is subcontractor of the French army, particularly for the training of naval aviation pilots, this attack represents a clear attack on France's strategic interests. On the other hand, if the planes concerned were at the Montpellier-Hérault flying club, it immediately adjoins the Montpellier-Mediterranean airport, where airliners are parked. In a high terrorist context, this act of sabotage, clearly planned and of a criminal nature, calls into question the security of civil airport infrastructures as well as the security of the 1.8 million travelers who use the lines of Montpellier-Mediterranean airport each year. This event notably echoes, to another extent, the intrusion in broad daylight of 9 environmental activists on the tarmac of Charles-De-Gaulle airport in March 2021. The latter had been able to access an airliner in broad daylight without encountering any obstacle and had only been penalized with simple fines of a few hundred euros. The MP deplores the poor security of aeronautical infrastructures, given the ease with which arsonists entered a reserved area at four thirty in the morning, without even being worried. He wishes to be communicated to him the means currently deployed to guarantee the security of the Montpellier airport perimeter. He also asks him to specify what concrete measures the latter is considering in order to strengthen the security of aeronautical training facilities and more generally, to prevent acts of sabotage on critical sites relating to civil aviation.

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