Mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi has announced that seven new radars will soon be installed in various locations around Nice, including four along the Promenade des Anglais, following the recent death of a local firefighter, who was struck and killed by a driver who had ignored a red light on the famous seafront.
At a press conference held in Nice on 13th September, the long-time mayor spoke of the urgent need for new measures to curb speeding and dangerous driving in the city of Nice. He cited the recent death of firefighter Jérémie Boulon as the latest sobering reminder, and called on the Prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes, Hughes Moutouh, to take action.
“This has gone on for too long,” he later declared on X, expressing his frustration with delays from the Prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes in installing additional speed cameras in the city.
The local authorities will now move independently to assign the locations of seven new cameras, with northern Nice locations like Gairaut, Gorbella and Cimiez under consideration, along with the four sites on the Promenade des Anglais.
Once the locations are decided on, the mayor says that it will be “up to the Prefect to have them connected to the Ministry of the Interior network”.
The increase in surveillance is part of Nice’s broader action plan to combat road deaths, a strategy recently signed in collaboration with the Antoine Alléno Association, an organisation set up by the Monaco-based Chef Yannick Alléno after the death of his son, who was struck and killed by a driver who was behind the wheel without a licence and under the influence of alcohol.
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