The French newspaper Le Figaro revealed, in an extensive report, the dismantling of a Hezbollah logistics network that operated in several European countries. Over the past few months. The network purchased components used to manufacture drones and sent them to Lebanon by sea.
The newspaper, which based its investigation on legal documents and security sources, noted that this network operated in France, Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom, where it made extensive purchases of technical and sensitive materials that were used to manufacture hundreds of drones, and possibly as many as 1,000.
The investigation began in the summer of 2024 in the Spanish region of Catalonia, where the Spanish Civil Guard identified suspicious behavior in repeated purchases of electronic equipment and industrial components common in the drone manufacturing process. It later emerged that people of Lebanese origin were behind these purchases, and that their goal was to send the materials to Lebanon in an operation described as organized and systematic.
Among the materials purchased by the network are precision electronic steering systems, propellers, dozens of gasoline engines and more than 200 electric motors and tons of materials Composites used to build the fuselage and wings of the aircraft.