Alain Delon: Police seize 72 guns from French film star’s home

French police have seized 72 firearms and greater than 3,000 rounds of ammunition from the house of display screen legend Alain Delon.

A taking pictures vary was additionally discovered on the actor’s residence in Douchy-Montcorbon, about 135km (84 miles) south of Paris.

Prosecutors stated Mr Delon didn’t have a allow to permit him to personal a gun.

The actor, 88, was a star of the golden period of French cinema, identified for his tough-guy persona on display screen in hits like The Samurai and Borsalino.

The search on Tuesday was ordered after a court-appointed official despatched to Mr Delon’s residence seen a weapon and alerted a decide.

The star has been sick in recent times after having a stroke in 2019 and affected by one other severe situation, unnamed in French media.

The breakdown of his household has additionally been making headlines in France.

His three youngsters have laid their mutual grievances earlier than the media in a sequence of insults, accusations, lawsuits and secret recordings.

The most recent authorized exchanges had been over Mr Delon’s medical therapy and final month a court-sanctioned physician examined him, however his conclusions had been instantly disputed by the youngsters.

Issues had been first raised about him final yr when his youngsters filed a grievance in opposition to his former live-in assistant Hiromi Rollin.

They allege the Japanese movie manufacturing assistant engaged in “ethical harassment” of their father. Her lawyer denied all of the allegations on the time.

Mr Delon’s final main public look was to obtain an honorary Palme d’Or on the Cannes Movie Competition in 2019.

In September 2019, he attended the funeral of his good friend and fellow star Jean-Paul Belmondo in Paris.