Officials uncovered nearly a ton of machine gun cartridges and cases of grenades during the summer.
"They came to the site for two days," the town's mayor, Xavier Angeli, told France 3."And there, a real arsenal of more than a ton was brought to light: ammunition, mortar shells, grenades, a large machine gun."
The city's director of technical services, Christèle Le Boulanger, said that the discovery had left many town officials in a cold sweat:"You realize it's right below the school sandbox, where hundreds of children from the Jules-Verne primary school played, above war munitions, without knowing it, for several decades."
It is still unclear how the weapons ended up under the school playground. However, this is not the first time Second World War weapons were found under school property.In February 2022, a 275-pound bomb of U.S. origin was found by construction workers on the site of the Notre-Dame-de-la-Providence School in Avranches, according to French outlet"We find them every week," Yannick Le Sausse, second in command of the departmental gendarmerie group, told the outlet.
The town's mayor decided to keep the recent discovery under wraps until the day before the children were due to return to school on September 5. While some parents have been alarmed by the discovery, the mayor insists that the site is totally safe.
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