Overview
- On November 12, a 23-year-old Sudanese man was stopped under the Arc de Triomphe after sitting on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
- He spoke incoherently and claimed to be the president of the Republic, according to police accounts.
- Staff spotted him around 9:30 a.m., he was detained for suspected violation of sepulture, and no damage was recorded.
- He was taken to a psychiatric infirmary and the procedure was later classified without further action.
- Recent months have seen other incidents at the site, including an October case involving a 51-year-old lawyer under narcotics and a summer case that led to a three-month suspended sentence for lighting a cigarette on the eternal flame.