Overview
- A booby-trapped package exploded in the lobby of a Monaco apartment building around 9 p.m. on Monday, seriously injuring two adults and a 13-year-old who were taken to hospitals in Nice.
- Forensic teams say the device contained bolts and buckshot that caused severe shrapnel wounds and shattered the building entrance.
- Surveillance footage shows a suspect leaving a backpack and fleeing on foot toward Beausoleil in France, triggering a joint Monaco–French manhunt with helicopters and dozens of officers deployed.
- Monaco prosecutors opened an attempted-murder investigation and said the blast is not being treated as terrorism at this stage while inquiries continue.
- Multiple media outlets and an unnamed investigative source have identified Ukrainian-born businessman Vadym Yermolaiev as one of the wounded, but Monaco officials have not formally confirmed identities and investigators are probing whether his past sanctions relate to a motive.