A man filmed on CCTV placing a backpack in the street remains at large, last seen heading on foot towards Beausoleil. The cross-border nature of the suspect’s flight requires coordination between Monégasque and French authorities.
The blast occurred at approximately 9:00 PM local time on rue Révérend-Père-Louis-Frolla, a residential street that runs along Monaco’s border with France. Emergency response teams, including 14 firefighters and 5 specialized vehicles from the neighboring French department of Alpes-Maritimes, quickly mobilized to secure the area.
Monaco’s police force, the Sûreté Publique, reviewed closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage from the area. The video captured an unidentified man dropping off a backpack in the street before walking away. Moments later, multiple individuals entered the immediate vicinity, and the device inside the bag detonated.
Speaking to Libération, an eyewitness said he saw “two people seriously injured and being evacuated on stretchers” after an “explosion inside a house.” Another witness at the scene described a “carnage, but the extent of the damage is not yet known.”
Fourteen firefighters and five specialist vehicles from the Alpes-Maritimes were mobilised as reinforcements. Nice mayor Eric Ciotti and Alpes-Maritimes prefect Charles-Ange Ginésy both issued statements of solidarity.
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