The alert was given in the late afternoon on Saturday by the town hall, after the discovery of grenades in the level of “the foreshore”.
Two hand grenades, rusty, but still “active”, were found on Saturday on a beach of Zuydcoote (North) and destroyed “in an emergency” by clearance divers, in an area “frequented by the population,” said the maritime prefecture.
The alert is given at the end of the afternoon by the town council, after the discovery of grenades in the level of “foreshore”, an area of coastline alternately covered and uncovered by the sea according to the tides, says in a statement the prefecture of the English Channel and the North sea.
because “the dangerousness of actual cartridge still active, located (…) in an area frequented by the population”, the group of clearance divers (GPD) of the Channel and the maritime authorities decide to intervene “in emergency”.
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the sailors of The GPD are thus made “by helicopter, in order to intervene (…) before the night falls and the tide is high,” says the prefecture.
Part of the naval base of Cherbourg, the team is deposited on the beach at 19: 15, and then proceeds to 19H49 to the destruction of grenades.
