Two men were indicted on Wednesday and placed under judicial supervision for offenses relating to the legislation on weapons after the discovery of an arsenal and neo-Nazi objects in the Eure, AFP learned from the prosecutor's office. Évreux.
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The two accused
“recognize that they have weapons of war and are particularly passionate about weapons. Afterwards, their explanations are not very credible on the provenance of the weapons. Hence the opening of information to verify where these weapons come from
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the public prosecutor of Évreux Dominique Puechmaille told AFP. More than a hundred weapons, ammunition and
"objects with swastikas"
were discovered last weekend in the Eure, during a search carried out by the customs services, the prosecution said on Tuesday. . The search took place in Mesnil-en-Ouche, in the Normandy countryside, after the arrest of two 25-year-old men who had refused a customs check.
130 weapons, 200 kg of ammunition
The two men, one of whom is a corporal in the 35th Infantry Regiment of Belfort (Territoire-de-Belfort), had collided with the customs officers' car before being caught up, according to a police source.
But
"it is especially the searches carried out then which were interesting: there was an arsenal, a lot of ammunition and objects with swastikas"
, added the prosecutor.
From a source close to the investigation, customs officers got their hands on 130 weapons, including AR-15 and AK-47 assault rifles, submachine guns, handguns, shotguns and butt shotguns. sawn, 200 kg of various ammunition, grenades, five 20 mm cartridges for aircraft machine guns.
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In addition, elements of propaganda linked to the extreme right (badges, posters, neo-Nazi documentation) were discovered, according to the source close to the investigation.
"These are little Nazillions who do not belong to any particular group with any plan for an attack,"
a police source told AFP, specifying that the majority of the weapons seized were legally detained.
“There are around 30 weapons detained in irregular conditions. They are collectors. The accused soldier will be the subject of a disciplinary investigation within his regiment. We will have to look at where the seized ammunition comes from, there is a good chance that part of it comes from army stocks
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added this source.
