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Vaucluse The police seized two assault weapons on Saturday night in Carpentras, do we learned from a police source said, confirming information from Provence and Vaucluse Matin . The police were alerted at around 10 p.m. for an altercation on the Velleron road, in a suburban neighborhood of the commune of Carpentras.

When the officials arrived, a dozen men fled running, leaving behind their cars, but also a Kalashnikov and an assault rifle. The first weapon was found on the ground, the other in one of the vehicles.

It could be an intimidation attempt against the background of drug trafficking, confides a police source. The investigation was entrusted to the judicial police of Avignon.

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