Police find scores of guns at French star Delon’s home • FRANCE 24 English

Police find scores of guns at French star Delon’s home • FRANCE 24 English

Now authorities here in France have seized dozens of firearms from French acting Legend Alan dong a search of his property which is over 100 km south of Paris was ordered after a court appointed official sent to his home noticed a weapon and then alerted a judge for more on this story we can

Bring in France 24’s Olivia salaza winp Olivia great to see you what more do we know hi there now police officers searched donal’s home and found 72 weapons and over 3,000 rounds of ammunition there that was because a judge who supervises the actor’s legal guardianship flagged up a gun at his

Home earlier this month the 88-year-old actor is actually Mis Su toel here in France which means that he there is a judge tasked with managing his personal and financial matters because he’s deemed incapable either physically or mentally of doing so that was at the request of his sons now for now the

Authorities are investigating weapons in the categories a b and c that is a military grade uh weapons I.E assault rifle B semi-automatic weapons often hunting uh weapons and C uh well that’s actually hunting or Sports weapons a shotgun now Alan Del is an iconic figure of course

Here in France but he hasn’t been in the public ey for quite some time now and he has a bit of a troubled personal life doesn’t he yeah he does there’s a Family Feud going on and he’s also been in quite poor health now Alan donon just to

Remind viewers he was an absolute icon in the 60s and 70s starred in Visconti films like the leopard Rocco and his brothers the samurai directed by jier Melville often known as a tough leading man or a gangster role but as I said there was that family feud between his

Sons on one side and his daughter on the other his sons accused the daughter Anushka of uh trying to pre prevent him from dying at his home here in France and taking him to Switzerland for medical care they say that that would be for tax reasons so that she could

Perhaps protect more of their potential inheritance now this news of course Olivia raises uh qu the question of gun ownership here in France and how easy it could be to acquire these weapons well legally it’s actually very difficult to acquire a weapon here in France if you’re a civilian for example if you

Want one of those hunting licenses you have to undergo a psychological evaluation you’re aat automatically refused if you have a criminal record and if you do get that license it needs to be renewed every single year now around a million people in France have that hunting license within that legal

Framework which is actually one of the highest levels in Europe and hunting accidents are on the rise it’s quite a controversial subject here in France during the presidential election last time some candidates were saying that there should be tighter regulations so people aren’t shot accidentally in the countryside um it is believed that

Anywhere between 10 and 20 million illegal weapons are circulating at anytime here in France for example you can buy a Kalashnikov on the black market for around 3,000 Euros and they have often been used in uh drug rated criminal incidents in Paris and Marseilles for example so in terms of

The penalties that Alan Delong could incur possession of a gun without the correct registration which is what he’s being investigated for carries a fine of €75,000 and uh up to 5 years in prison

Police have seized 72 firearms from the home of French screen legend Alain Delon, who doesn’t have a permit for any of them, prosecutors said Tuesday. Delon has been in poor health since he suffered a stroke in 2019 and has recently been the centre of an escalating family feud.
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