Following his acquittal, the D-Day Omaha museum’s director plans an expansion

The cut reports that, on October 7, the Chartres court acquitted the director of the D-Day museum in Vierville-sur-Mer, Michel Brissard. The customs, which had appealed this judgment, had just withdrawn their appeal.

In 2007, weapons and ammunition from the Second World War were seized from his home in Eure-et-Loir. The customs administration wondered about the origin of this equipment. In the article, the curator's lawyer, Me Philippe Mulot, presented the decision and the withdrawal of the appeal as the end of the case, while Michel Brissard hoped that it would set a legal precedent.

He now had to recover eleven seized items, ranging from a gun described as a “57” to a submachine gun. The equipment was kept in Rouen; its return still depended on the organization of transport. These objects were to join the museum's collections.

Michel Brissard also announced an expansion and the addition of other weapons from the time of the Landing, which he described as very rare.

Reconstructed or uncertain passages:
- The name of the file mentions November 26, 2010; no full publication date is visible on the clip.
- The name is printed "Brissart" at the beginning of the text, then "Brissard" in the rest. The rewriting retains the second spelling, majority in the article.
- The denomination only indicates "57 cannon", without specifying the unit. This formulation is kept without adding a non-printed caliber.

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