A friend recently asked me a very interesting question. The bottom line is this: you are resting at your dacha, calmly sitting in an armchair, relaxing and enjoying life, when suddenly you hear some strange buzzing over your head. Raise your head, and an incomprehensible object is spinning above you. Upon closer inspection, it turns out to be a drone.
Naturally, it comes to mind that some narrow-minded teenager has launched his flying toy on private property and is having fun watching what is happening.
You try to threaten the invisible troublemaker with your fist, but the drone just flies off a little and hangs in a different place. For example, over a dog, infuriating the animal. And now the mood is completely ruined, bad thoughts creep into my head. What if this impudent teenager puts the resulting video on the Internet? What will happen then? And while you are thinking hard thoughts, the drone continues to circle over the site. Trying to defend your honor, you can grab a stick and shoot down the hated flying object.
This raises a reasonable question: is it possible to shoot down other people's drones? It is not cheap and is someone else's property. However, if you look at the situation from the other side, he flew into private territory, invaded his privacy.
What does the law say in this case?
The Land Code comes to your defense. It says that everything that is on your territory and under it is private property. So the drone has crossed someone else's airspace. But everything is not simple here! The law does not define where the upper boundary of the plot ends. Think, planes and drones of Rosreestr also fly over your dacha.
Therefore, another law comes into effect (it is also the most important). If you take the Constitution of the Russian Federation, you can see an article there that says that every citizen has the right to privacy. The drone certainly violates this law.
Can a site owner personally terminate a drone that violates the law? Naturally!
The Civil Code of our great homeland, fortunately, gives such a right. There is an article allowing citizens to defend themselves. But here, too, there are a number of restrictions: although we have a legal right to defense, it must be consistent with the violation.
Today, flying drones are no longer a simple harmless toy. A new law has been issued, which provides for the design of this equipment. The drone now needs documents, permission, etc. Therefore, most likely you can knock down the troublemaker yourself.
First, the very fact that a drone is flying over your land plot is already a violation of the law. His flight is illegalas this is an invasion of your privacy. We can conclude that self-defense in this situation will be fully justified and justified, while you will not exceed the existing restrictions.
The main thing to understand is that suppressing the flight of a drone should not contradict the letter of the law. For example, you cannot shoot a flying object. But knock it down with a stone or a stick - please!
Also, I think that the owner of the equipment will not come running to you if you shoot down a drone that was importunately flying directly overhead. After all, he must know that he has become a malicious violator of the law. If he has the nerve to come and demand compensation for a broken drone, then it is best to call the law enforcement agencies. They will record the fact that the object has entered the private territory.
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