Overview
- A shrapnel-filled parcel exploded in the lobby of a Monaco residential building shortly before 9pm on Monday, wounding a man, a woman and a teenager who were taken to hospitals in Nice.
- Surveillance footage showed a man leave a backpack in the building and flee on foot into the neighbouring French town of Beausoleil, triggering joint searches by Monégasque and French police.
- Authorities said the device contained bolts and buckshot and that emergency teams treated several other people for shock and glass cuts at the scene.
- Multiple French and Ukrainian outlets have identified the male victim as Vadym Yermolaiev, a Ukrainian-born businessman sanctioned by Kyiv in 2023, but Monaco officials have not publicly confirmed victims’ identities.
- Monaco has opened a judicial investigation on suspicions of attempted murder, prosecutors say the incident is not being formally classified as terrorism, and security officials are reviewing cross-border surveillance and coordination measures.