Overview
- A package left in the lobby of a Monaco apartment building exploded around 9pm on Monday, wounding three people and triggering a major security response.
- Authorities say the three victims are members of one family and include Ukrainian‑born businessman Vadym Yermolaiev, his partner and a teenage son, with the woman in life‑threatening condition.
- Monaco officials and the minister of state said the device contained bolts and buckshot, prosecutors opened an attempted‑murder investigation and are not treating the blast as terrorism.
- Surveillance images show a man dropping a bag and fleeing on foot toward the French town of Beausoleil, and Monaco and French forces are conducting a coordinated manhunt.
- Yermolaiev renounced Ukrainian citizenship, holds Cypriot nationality and was sanctioned by Kyiv in December 2023 over alleged ties to Russian‑occupied Crimea, but investigators have not established a motive and have warned against speculation.