France’s untimely chemical weapons problem
PARIS - France 24
Each year, according to figures provided by the interior ministry, between ten and 20 tonnes of chemical-weapon ammunition are found on the battlefields across northern and eastern France.
“Shells that were buried in the ground tend to come to the surface pretty regularly,” explained Olivier Lepick, a historian specialising in World War I at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. “You find them under farmers’ tractors, or sometimes people out for walks see them.”