A walker discovered an old semi-buried explosive at the level of the health course in Salon-de-Provence, this Saturday, May 7. Not far from children’s gamesthe machine was still in possible working order, according to Michel Roux, first deputy mayor of Salon-de-Provence.
On social networks, the vice-president of the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis explains that “the device was recovered by agents of the Civil Security mine clearance service to detonate it in an isolated area. The explosive, presented as potentially dangerous, was _in possible working condition_. It was a Brant 50 mm pneumatic mortar, model of 1937″.
The security perimeter could then be lifted. Traffic for walkers is possible again.