Traffic between France and Italy through the Fréjus tunnel was interrupted for two hours on Wednesday morning, time to defuse and extract a bomb dating from World War II in the town of Fourneaux (Savoie), a-t- we learned from the prefecture.
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"
Operation started at 8:30 am, finished at 9.45 am, it is an operation carried out smoothly and without any difficulty
", welcomed the prefecture.
The "
British bomb of about 500 kg is on its way to a specialized center in the Grand Est region where it will be destroyed
", the same source said.
An important safety device had been planned to deal with "
any grain of sand
" in this kind of delicate operation: a safety perimeter of 400 m, 120 people evacuated from their homes, the A43 motorway closed from Modane as well. than the Fréjus tunnel, gendarmerie, firefighters and deminers mobilized.
Discovered in 2019, the device was first buried for a "
safety
" and mine clearance operations had been postponed because of the Covid-19 epidemic.
On Wednesday morning, the bomb was extracted and the priming process was removed and destroyed.
