Overview
- Security footage shows two riders posing as delivery couriers throwing and detonating a grenade at the Gold Inn around 3 a.m.
- The explosion shattered doors and a glass roof and damaged interior areas, and no injuries were reported as people sheltered inside.
- The assailants fled north on Av. Petit Thouars on a motorcycle, and a nearby patrol was unable to catch them.
- UDEX and Dirincri secured the site and collected evidence, and the Division against Extortions has taken over the investigation.
- Authorities cite raids hours earlier targeting human‑trafficking networks with more than 30 detentions as a working hypothesis, and police say the suspects may be foreign nationals while hotel staff report no prior extortion threats.