During a pedestrian patrol to secure the Carré de Soie shopping center, Wednesday January 22 in Vaulx-en-Velin, municipal police officers were approached by a panicked woman.
She explained to them that an individual in the last car of a metro train was in possession of a firearm.
Arrested in the metro
The police immediately went towards the suspect, who was carrying a backpack, and arrested him.
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The individual was restrained and his backpack put aside until the arrival of the national police.
An alarm gun and a magazine
The suspect was in fact in possession of a handgun, a 9 mm caliber alarm pistol, and an unfed 15-ammunition magazine.
He was taken into custody for carrying an undeclared category C weapon.
