The kid thought he was buying a toy, it was a real army plaster grenade that exploded and injured him on the flea market.

On Sunday, May 4, 2025, while strolling through the Sète flea market in Hérault, a child bought a grenade from a stallholder, thinking it was a fake. A misunderstanding that could have turned tragic when the grenade exploded in the boy's hands.

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On Sunday, May 4, 2025, a 12-year-old boy was injured in the explosion of a grenade in Sète, Hérault. He had just bought it at a price of 1€ at the market, thinking it was a toy. The facts occurred in the middle of the morning. Around 11 a.m., the setinous firefighters intervened on the flea market, Place de la République, to assist a little boy. According to several witnesses, a plaster grenade had just exploded in his hands. "The deflagration …