The Russian Consulate General in Marseille said the French authorities were responsible for the attack.

The responsibility for the attack on the Russian Consulate General in Marseille lies with the French authorities, who are promoting an anti-Russian campaign. This was reported on February 28 in the Telegram channel of the diplomatic mission.

As indicated, particular confusion is caused by the involvement of the perpetrators of the attack in the scientific community.

"We hold responsible for the incident the actions of the French authorities, who have launched a full-scale anti-Russian campaign aimed at spreading Russophobia and anti-Russian sentiments in French society. The verdict passed yesterday is another confirmation of this," the diplomatic mission said in a statement.

The explosion in Marseille occurred on February 24. Two French citizens threw three explosive bottles into the territory of the diplomatic mission, two of them exploded. The Russian Embassy in the country reported that as a result of the explosion href="https://iz.ru/1844129/2025-02-24/v-posolstve-rf-soobshchili-ob-otsutstvii-postradavshikh-v-genkonsulstve-v-marsele " target="_blank">no one was injured.

An explosion on the territory of the Russian Consulate General in Marseille. What is known

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, noted that the incident had all signs of a terrorist attack. Later, she stated that the attack on the diplomatic mission was due to the escalation by Paris href="https://iz.ru/1846139/2025-02-27/zakharova-ukazala-na-nagnetanie-parizhem-nenavisti-k-rf-posle-ataki-na-genkonsulstvo " target="_blank">hatred towards Moscow.

The court hearing on the case of the attackers took place on the afternoon of February 27. The defendants pleaded guilty. The court sentenced them to eight months in prison with the possibility of serving their sentence under house arrest with an electronic bracelet, and they cannot own or carry weapons for five years. Later, the Consul General of the Russian Federation in Marseille, Stanislav Oransky, stated href="https://iz.ru/1846323/2025-02-27/genkonsulstvo-rf-v-marsele-ne-soglasno-s-prigovorom-suda-po-delu-o-napadenii " target="_blank">about disagreement with the court's decision.