MrBallen

The shooter had then disappeared back into the crowd, and witnesses saw a second man dressed in black follow after him.

The firefighter said that both victims had been taken to the hospital in critical condition, but he didn't know if they were still alive now, and he also didn't have any information on their identities, just that it was a man and a woman.

Immediately, Frison's mind went to carjacking.

Now, Nice did not have a huge amount of crime, but one of its more common issues was something called the car door grab, which was when criminals would target cars who were stuck in traffic, and they would rob these cars.

And so he wondered if maybe carjackers had approached this vehicle and attempted to rob it.

Something happened, they drew a weapon, and then obviously the victims inside were shot, and then the carjackers took off.

And so Frison radioed back to the station for backup.

A crime like this, whether it was carjacking or not, obviously what he's dealing with here is murder.

A crime like this needed more officers than just him.

And so he gets in touch with the dispatcher and he fills her in on the need for backup.

And then during this discussion, she actually passes one more piece of information to Frison that she had recently learned.

And that was the identities of the victims.

And the reason that they already knew who these people were is because one of the victims was incredibly famous.

The woman who had been shot was Helene Pastor.

The other victim was her driver, Mohamed Darwich.

When Frison heard this, he couldn't believe it.

I mean, of course he knew who she was.

Everyone in Monaco knew who Helene Pastor was, or at least had heard the Pastor name.

And so now that Frison knew the identities of his victims, I mean, his theory of this case immediately changed.

He felt like there was no way the richest woman in Monaco just happened to be targeted by random carjackers.