Subject: [NEXTEL-1] French police seize mobile phone guns

From: Marcel <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 18:30:44 -0500

French police seize mobile phone guns
Friday, February 7, 2003 Posted: 3:02 PM EST (2002 GMT)

ROUEN, France (Reuters) -- French
police said Friday they had seized
two lethal mobile phones capable
of shooting four bullets, with the
digital touchpads used as triggers.

The black phones, identical to normal
mobile phones on the outside, were
discovered in a raid on a suspected
criminal's home Tuesday in the northern
city of Rouen.

The deadly phones come apart in the
middle to reveal a four-chamber
compartment for .22 caliber bullets, which
can be shot out of a protruding fake
antenna.

"These would be lethal at 10 meters," said Michel Lavaud, head of a local police brigade.

Police seized the telephones along with 1,000 ecstasy pills, heroin, cannabis and $25,000
in cash at the home of a man suspected of armed robberies and drug trafficking.

Lavaud said police thought the weapons were of a kind believed to be made in Eastern
Europe and to have appeared in Belgium and the Netherlands in 2001.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/02/07/france.guns.reut/index.html

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