A shell dating from the First World War was found on Monday in… the garbage room of a building in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine).
A surprising and somewhat frightening discovery which led to the intervention of a demining team on site, reports Actu Hauts-de-Seine.
It was the caretaker of a five-storey building located on Place Chabanne who fell on the ammunition in a technical room, specifies BFM Paris Ile-de-France.
The shell was 25 cm long.
No explosive charge
The deminers established a security perimeter around the building and evacuated around fifty inhabitants.
But the shell was actually empty of any explosive charge and therefore harmless, specify our colleagues.
Residents were able to return to their homes in the late afternoon.
The weapon, meanwhile, was entrusted to the laboratory of the Prefecture of Police for analysis.
In Normandy, the demining operation was stalled, but the shell disappeared
A flea market partially evacuated after the discovery of a shell on a stand
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