A man was arrested on Saturday, January 9 in Charente after having launched, the day before, a bomb threat in the cemetery of Jarnac, where Emmanuel Macron was to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of François Mitterrand, learned Sunday a correspondent of the 'AFP to the gendarmerie.
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Placed in custody for a few hours this weekend, the man, aged 57, explained that he wanted to “
have fun
”, according to this source.
On Friday morning, he telephoned the town hall of Jarnac, assuring that bombs had been placed in the cemetery, where the head of state was to meditate on the grave of the former president, who disappeared 25 years ago.
The threat was taken seriously and the deminers present in the town once again inspected the cemetery from top to bottom.
Without finding anything.
For their part, the Charente gendarmes have launched investigations to identify and locate the joker.
On the day of the commemorations, he was in the department, but investigators had not been able to find him.
The gendarmes, with the help of the surveillance and intervention platoon of the Angoulême gendarmerie (Psig), finally arrested him on Saturday at his daughter's home in Charente.
This fifty-year-old, unknown to the courts and who has recognized the facts, according to a source close to the file, will be summoned soon for a citizenship course.
