Par Thomas Savalle Published on 5 never 2025 to 19h14
Bad fighting on Bon-Secours beach in Saint-Malo (Ille-et-Vilaine) Saturday, May 3, 2025, after the discovery of a shell dating from the Second World War.
Some were forced to shorten the nap on the sand because the deminers of the French Navy, accompanied by the national and municipal police, asked people to leave the premises.
“It was armored”
“I took pictures of people who jumped from diving. I then saw soldiers arriving. At the start, I did not think it was a shell, but rather an object rejected by the sea, ”says Marc-Andréas Vervey. “We wanted to go down to have a drink, but they sent everyone. It was really the crowd. »»
A tire that has gone in the air
The shell, about thirty centimeters, was near the Bon-Secours beach bar. The deminers moved the explosive device about twenty meters, between the bar and the sea water swimming pool.
Many people have attended the scene from the Malouin ramparts. “It made a big boom. We saw a tire that went in the air to ten meters away… ”
The intervention that lasted approximately 1:30.
A busy weekend for deminers
Note that the day before, Friday, May 2, the demining team blew up another bomb off Cézembre. In addition, they intervened, still on Friday, in Plougrescant (Côtes-d’Armor) to neutralize a shell of the First World War “it was a busy weekend for deminers,” finished the maritime prefecture.
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