Monaco’s Prosecutor General has confirmed that weapons found in a vehicle during a police operation were airsoft replicas, following a widely shared social media report that officers had discovered handguns.
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On Thursday, 15 October 2026, a cliché published on social networks showed the alleged discovery of two firearms during a police check in Monaco. It was actually a fake weapon, confirmed Monaco's Attorney General's Office at Monaco-Matin.