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Kops detain South Ossetia suspect with grenade
2022-01-03
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] Police officers confiscated a grenade from a drunk driver from Tskhinvali, the South Ossetian Interior Ministry reported.

In Tskhinval, on Heroev Street today, during raids, UGIBDD officers stopped a Mitsubishi Galant car. The driver of the car turned out to be a 30-year-old resident of the capital of the republic.

"During a personal search, an F-1 hand grenade was found and seized in a jacket pocket. The driver was intoxicated," the press service of the South Ossetian Interior Ministry said.

The offender was placed in a temporary detention cell. The investigation into this fact is being conducted by the Tskhinvali Department of Internal Affairs, the department informed on its website today.

Comments from the detainee or his lawyers have not yet been received.

Posted by:badanov

#2  Huh...I thought they used a grenade to detain the suspect when I first read it...
Posted by: Warthog   2022-01-03 10:07  

#1  The Soviet F-1 hand grenade is an anti-personnel fragmentation defensive grenade. It is based on the French F1 grenade and contains a 60-gram explosive charge (TNT). The total weight of the grenade with the fuze is about 600 grams.

Posted by: Skidmark   2022-01-03 10:00  

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