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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Oliver Wainwright

‘War is back. People want to stock up’: inside Europe’s biggest arms fair

DSEI Arms Fair, Excel Centre, London.
War is on our doorstep … DSEI Arms Fair, Excel Centre, London. Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/Shutterstock

A body convulses on a table, with broken bones poking from a stump of torn flesh below the knee, one arm gruesomely peppered with gunshot wounds, as men in military uniforms look on approvingly.

“He bleeds, he moves, he breathes, he has a pulse,” says the smiling sales rep. “His eyes even react to light. We have a canine version too, which barks and whines – and it comes with interchangeable injured limbs.”

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