More than 200 mortar shells, 800 kg of machine gun ammunition, an English machine gun and grenades. This arsenal of the Second World War was discovered during the month of July during earthworks of the playground of the elementary school Jules-Verne, in Tain-l’Hermitage, in the Drôme, relates The Dauphine Libere.
This artillery was “right below the sandbox of the school”, specified Christèle Le Boulanger, director of the technical services of the town hall, to the local newspaper. “Hundreds of children have been playing above munitions of war, unknowingly, for decades,” she added.
Monday, the day of the start of the school year, the mayor of the town reassured the students and their parents by assuring that the place had been raked and that there was “no longer any problem”. According to information from the daily, it was the deminers of the Civil Security of Lyon who took care of the “safe” destruction of this panoply of war.