{"id":909826,"date":"2026-07-03T12:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/909826\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T12:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:56:20","slug":"anastasiia-berezovska-identified-in-interpol-red-notice-for-monaco-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/909826\/","title":{"rendered":"Anastasiia Berezovska identified in Interpol Red Notice for Monaco attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARIS (AP) \u2014 Interpol on Friday identified a 39-year-old woman from Ukraine as the main suspect in a bombing in Monaco<\/a> that reportedly targeted a Ukrainian tycoon with links to Russia. <\/p>\n

The police organization named Anastasiia Berezovska, who remains at large, in a Red Notice posted on its website seeking her arrest on charges of attempted murder, placing an explosive device in a public place with criminal intent, and criminal conspiracy.<\/p>\n

Monaco authorities haven\u2019t identified any of the three people wounded in Monday\u2019s explosion at an apartment building entrance but said they are a family and that they appear to have been specifically targeted.<\/p>\n

Media reports named Ukrainian construction tycoon Vadym Yermolaiev as being among the wounded. He has said he renounced his Ukrainian citizenship nearly a decade ago, and he was targeted by Ukrainian sanctions in 2023 for ties to Russia<\/a>. <\/p>\n

A woman and a child were also hurt. One of the victims is still in a life-threatening condition, prosecutors said Friday, also mentioning two other \u201ccollateral victims\u201d who were slightly injured in the attack.<\/p>\n

The Interpol notice says the suspect has a tattoo, possibly of a snake, on her right arm from the shoulder to the elbow. It says she was born in Ukraine, has dark hair, and speaks German. <\/p>\n

Morgan Raymond, the deputy prosecutor in Monaco, told a news conference the bomb was detonated from a distance, using a remote control. The remains of the bomb are being analyzed in neighboring France, he said.<\/p>\n

He added that the suspect was initially identified as a heavily built person appearing to be male, wearing a dark long-sleeved top, light-colored shorts and a black bucket hat. A broader review of CCTV footage from previous days and testimony from a witness redirected the investigation toward a woman disguised as a man.<\/p>\n

Eric Arella, Monaco\u2019s director of public security, held up copies of the Interpol wanted notice at the news conference with the prosecutor. It included two photos of a woman wearing a white T-shirt with dark stripes, one of them in a street where she\u2019s holding what appears to be some sort of electronic device, trailing a cable, in her left hand.<\/p>\n

The judicial investigation also focused on whether the suspect had accomplices or acted on behalf of someone else.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe relative sophistication of the explosive device and the modus operandi suggest that the person who planted the device did not act alone,\u201d Raymond said. <\/p>\n

Two male individuals were taken into police custody as part of the investigation, but both were subsequently released.<\/p>\n

Investigators also identified a rented vehicle fitted with German license plates used by the suspect in Monaco. The suspect\u2019s escape route was traced, including the journey from France into Italy, and then across several European countries up to her country of residence. Raymond said that her last known address is in Germany, \u201ca country with which judicial cooperation is particularly active.\u201d<\/p>\n

German police, including special forces, on Thursday searched the rented apartment near Frankfurt of a 39-year-old Ukrainian woman in connection with the investigation, police and prosecutors said in a statement Friday.<\/p>\n

A vehicle used by the woman also was searched and secured, they added, and evidence will be handed over to authorities in Monaco. They said that the woman is on the run and they can\u2019t give more details at present.<\/p>\n

The attack shocked the country on the Mediterranean coast, one of the world\u2019s smallest sovereign states and known for its high concentration of wealthy residents. Monaco\u2019s Prince Albert II described it as \u201can odious act\u201d and said all public services were mobilized to ensure security.<\/p>\n

Ukraine is believed to have carried out attacks and targeted killings of Russian figures in the course of the war, although those attacks have largely been confined to Ukrainian or Russian territory.<\/p>\n

In December 2024, Ukraine\u2019s security service claimed responsibility<\/a> for killing the head of nuclear, biological and chemical military protection forces for the Russian military. <\/p>\n

Western intelligence officials have recently said that Russia has ramped up a campaign of targeted killings<\/a> since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. <\/p>\n

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Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (AP) \u2014 Interpol on Friday identified a 39-year-old woman from Ukraine as the main suspect in a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":909827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[396,368008,57,117,19831,368007,50,257,103,107],"class_list":["post-909826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-bombings","tag-eric-arella","tag-general-news","tag-germany","tag-monaco","tag-morgan-raymond","tag-news","tag-russia","tag-world","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116856159534748582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}