Golden Coast. Dijon, Beaune, Montbard… The crazy numbers of the arms abandonment operation
Our report, Thursday at the Dijon police station, had set the tone: the operation to abandon weapons has had a much greater success than expected in recent days.
Friday evening, the prefecture of Côte-d’Or also published an impressive report of this campaign carried out from November 26 to December 2 in three sites across the department: the gendarmerie brigade of Montbard and the police stations of Beaune and Dijon.
More than 800 weapons and 30,000 ammunition abandoned
In total, during this week, 882 weaponsdon’t 788 long guns and handgunswere abandoned as well as 30,944 ammunition. nothing butin Beaune, nearly 400 weapons were abandoned.
At the same time, 152 hitherto undeclared weapons have been registered in the weapons information system (SIA) allowing the regularization of their owners. As for those who wish, it is always possible to register his weapons held or held in the SIA.
A national success
These good figures have also been noted throughout the country. In total, this national operation would have made it possible to collect more than 150,000 weapons, including 140,000 firearms, according to an initial report communicated Friday by the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin. It is in the departments of Gironde, Nord, Finistère, Pas-de-Calais and Morbihan that the collection would have been the most prolific.