The New Year is approaching and, with it, fireworks and other firecrackers are back in Alsace.
However, their sale and use are prohibited.
As every year now, the prefecture has issued a decree in this direction.
Result, the seizures are linked.
In Illkirch-Graffenstaden, just next to Strasbourg, 207 kg were seized in a grocery store by customs.
The mayor of the city, Thibaud Philipps welcomed this in a press release.
"These devices cause irremediable bodily harm and, often diverted from their uses, are responsible for numerous damages and shootings towards the police," he writes.
Every year, tragedies occur because of these pyrotechnic devices.
A 25-year-old man had died "with his head torn off" by a firework mortar on January 1, another was killed and about fifty wounded a year earlier ...
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