She was hanging out there, on a piece of grass in the parking lot. A customer of the Decathlon store in Yutz, in Moselle, discovered an American grenade dating from the Second World War, Tuesday around 4:30 p.m. The device had risen to the surface due to natural erosion, reports the Republican Lorraine.
The man immediately raised the alarm and parking was prohibited. The people inside the sports store were confined, as were those in the nearby gym, for forty-five minutes. The time of the demining operation, carried out by a team from Metz.
Finally, more fear than harm: the grenade was harmless.
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