British Grenade Found During Construction Stage Concert Guns N Roses

During the setting up of the concert grounds of Guns N ‘Roses in the Goffertpark in Nijmegen, a British grenade was found on Monday afternoon, presumably from the Second World War.

We have often held concerts at this place, but we have not found a grenade before, ” says a spokeswoman for concert organiser Mojo. , Fortunately, the pallet was ‘safe’. There was no danger of explosion for a moment. “

The Goffertpark, including the NEC playground, served as an encampment during Operation Market Garden. There were guns to fire grenades to support the Allies offensive in the Reichswald.

City guide and local resident Gijs Hoogeboom (81) is confident that there are many more grenades in the ground. He says that future concertgoers do not have to fear that other stray bombs or grenades will still explode unexpectedly.

“The explosives have been left behind after the British fired grenades in 1944 with around twenty guns. Immediately after the war, we as boys found a lot of grenades in the Goffertpark. They never went spontaneously, because they were not on edge. We did, of course, get the powder out, so that we could detonate other things with it. ”

The Goffertpark was in 2011 a favourite location for collector Ernesto Aalders from Tolkamer. He went out at night too, with success, dig grenade shells on the Goffert Meadow. According to him, it can not do any harm. “If you only know what you are doing.”

The Explosives Clearance Service (EOD) immediately removed the explosive from the Second World War on Monday after the discovery and exploded in the Groesbeek forests. The build-up could continue.

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