For Monaco’s public prosecutor Stéphane Thibault, it almost beggars belief. “To my knowledge, it’s the first time in history that such a thing has happened in the principality,” he said in a press conference Tuesday, the morning after an explosion rocked the heart of the wealthy, ultra-safe micro-state in France’s south. Just before 9pm, a powerful explosion ripped through the ground floor of a block of flats, wounding three people including a 13-year-old child. For now, local authorities are treating the incident as an “attempted murder”, Thibault said, stressing that no suspect had yet been found. The construction king of Dnipro Monegasque authorities have refused to identify the victims of the attack, revealing only that they lived on the building’s ground floor and had arrived in the micro-state in 2021. But information obtained by French news station BFMTV and confirmed to AFP by a source close to the investigation suggests that one of the three people was Vadym Yermolaiev, a wealthy oligarch from Ukraine.
Manhunt launched after Monaco blast targets Ukrainian-born oligarch
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