Ruins of World War II

8 February 2011 02:45 am

Patrick Strozoda, prefect of the Hauts-de-Seine department, mayor of Boulogne-Billancourt Christophe Baguet and a mine clearance expert stand next to a bomb dropped by an allied plane in World War II, on February 6, 2011, in Boulogne-Billancourt, west of Paris. Police evacuated 6,000 people in order to destroy the unexploded bomb. The bomb -- weighing half a tonne, of which half was explosives -- was found on a building site on the grounds of the old Renault car factory in Boulogne-Billancourt. AFP