Emmanuel Macron, January 8, 2020 in Jarnac.
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Sebastien ORTOLA-POOL / SIPA
A man was arrested on Saturday in Charente.
He is suspected of being the source of a false bomb threat when Emmanuel Macron came to Jarnac.
The President of the Republic came to pay homage to François Mitterrand on the 25th anniversary of his death.
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.
Found and arrested at his daughter's home
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.
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