Saturday, November 20, the Customs Operations Branch discovered more than 130 weapons at an individual. Justice questions any links with ultra-right networks.
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The weapons cache discovered by the Customs Operations Department (DOD), Saturday, November 20 in Saint-Germain-La-Campaign (Eure), was it intended to feed a traffic related to large banditry or to equip groups related to the ultra-right? That day, customs officers intercept a vehicle on the basis of two young men aged 25 years. Once the vehicle is immobilized, the investigators discover three shotguns and an automatic pistol on the occasion of its excavation. But after rapid checks, it appears that these weapons are held perfectly legally. Deciding to continue their investigations, the customs officers go to the home of one of the two men, a detached house located at Mesnil-en-Ouche (Eure), about thirty kilometers away.
des “Propaganda elements”
On the spot, after detecting a cache in the house, they update a real arsenal. According to the first findings, the room is home not less than 130 weapons, including AR-15 and AK-47 assault rifles, at least two gunmeller guns, handguns, two gun pump rifles and sawnar, 200 kilograms of various ammunition, grenades, five shells … “Elements of propaganda linked to the far right” come to complement the panoply of the two men, including the owner of the house, a tool, and his accomplice, a soldier of Active, Corporal at 35 E Belfort Infantry Regiment (Territory-de-Belfort).
If the hypothesis of a weapon trafficking related to terrorist groups is not yet verified, the prosecutor’s office (Eure) has seized the judicial police of Rouen and the sub-direction of the fight against organized crime. The anti-terrorist sub-direction, it has been mobilized for an evaluation mission for the benefit of the national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office (UNAT). “It is a question of determining the scope and environment of the two men, details a police source. And in particular know what their role is in the eventual supply of the ultra-right tied.”