Aaliyah took sleeping pill, carried to plane before crash: witness

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A French dad faces jail time and a big fine after shutting down the whole town’s internet using a signal jammer to prevent his kids from going online.Starting at midnight until 3am every day of the week, the whole French town found that their mobile and internet service was no longer working.Someone in the village reported the issue to Agency Nationale des Fréquences (ANFR), a public agency responsible for managing the radioelectric spectrum in France after finding they couldn’t access any apps after midnight.It was then determined that a signal jammer was being used to block radio frequencies in the town.A signal jammer is a device that transmits radio waves on the same frequency as mobile devices to prevent them from connecting to cell towers and receiving legitimate signals.The official report from the ANFR explains that a technician traced the signal to a house in the neighbouring town where the homeowner admitted to purchasing a jammer online and using it to force his teenagers offline when they were meant to be in bed."The explanation was disconcertingly simple: the jammer had been installed by the father of the family to prevent his teenagers from accessing the internet with their smartphone instead of falling asleep!His children had indeed become addicted to social networks and other applications, in particular since the confinement imposed due to the epidemic of Covid-19," ANFR explained in their report."After consulting forums on the internet, the father decided that a jammer was the best solution to put an end to these excesses!”It was not the intent of the father to take down an entire town’s Internet, using a jamming device in France is illegal and carries a penalty of up to a €30,000 fine and 6 months in

showbiz gossip straight to your inbox with the Daily Star's FREE newsletterNew witness reports have said that R&B singer Aaliyah was "drugged" and "did not want to get on the plane" that took her life.Aaliyah died in a plane crash on her way back from her Rock The Boat music video shoot in the Bahamas in 2001.The singer died when she was only 22 alongside eight others, including pilot, Luis Morales III.Kingsley Russell, whose family drove Aaliyah to the airport, saw the singer moments before she died.Although only 13 at the time, Kingsley, now 33, claimed Aaliyah was falling asleep in the taxi on the way to the plane and did not want to get on.Speaking out for the first time in years, Kingsley said: "They took her out of the van, she didn’t

Aaliyah was reluctant to board the flight that ultimately cost the singer’s life and had taken a sleeping pill just hours earlier, according to new claims.Kingsley Russell, whose family ran a taxi firm in the Bahamas, was with the star when his stepmother drove her team to the airport as she prepared to return to the US in August 2001.Russell was just 13-years-old and worked as a baggage carrier as the singer prepared to return home.However, he now claims that the singer refused to board the plane when she first saw it and went back to sleep in the car driven by his stepmother, telling her team she had a headache.Aaliyah, who is said to have passed out in the back of the cab, was allegedly carried onto the plane while sleeping, despite her