Jeanne was quietly reading on her terrace when she heard a violent explosion.
It's 12:21 p.m.
“
It was a huge boom, like a gas canister or a car exploding right next to my house
,” she says.
“
The walls shook, I had goosebumps
”.
Her friends, with whom she spends her holidays in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, immediately went out into the street, like the neighbors.
On Twitter, Internet users share their emotion and their location: the explosion was heard not only throughout Nice, but also in Cannes, Saint-Raphaël, Fréjus and Antibes.
Questioned by
Nice-Matin
, the firefighters, citing Nice airport, explained that the noise of this explosion would be linked to the passage of a fighter plane which would have crossed the sound barrier.
On Twitter, the mayor of Cannes David Lisnard confirmed this information, explaining that "
the loud detonation heard in Cannes and throughout the city is due to an air force fighter plane which crossed the wall of the sound at low altitude
”.
In 2020, a similar detonation was heard in Île-de-France.
It was the intervention of a Rafale to provide assistance to an aircraft in loss of contact.
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