Wanted by Interpol: who is Anastasia Berezovska, the woman with the snake tattoo

She is a woman residing in Germany, who was identified, according to Morgan Raymond, deputy prosecutor of Monaco, on Friday morning. Interpol has issued a Red Notice for his arrest.

“She did not act alone”according to the prosecutor. He has dark hair and a tattoo, possibly of a snake, on his right arm, from shoulder to elbow.

Initially, if He mistook her for a manfor her fisherman hat and glasses, as she is dressed in black. However, she He wandered around the building for several days of the victims in Monaco, and one of the neighbors identified her as a woman. Then, international police files intervened to support the investigation in Monaco.

“The suspect has been identified, who will be the subject of an Interpol Red Notice,” the prosecutor’s office added at a press conference.

The suspect is wanted for “attempted murder”, “placing an explosive device in a public place with criminal intent” and “criminal conspiracy”, according to the Interpol Red Notice.

On Monday night, someone left a package in the lobby of a small apartment building near the French border. Shortly after, an explosive device was detonated in the lobby when three residents —a couple and a 13-year-old boy—were returning home. They were seriously injured.

The suspect picked up her car from a garage a few days before the attack. He had even inspected the area by car on June 26. The images show it driving through the Father Louis Frolla roundabout, at the end of the street of the same name, where the bomb exploded three days later, on June 29 at 8:58 p.m.

The French judicial police would have recovered images of the main suspect on Thursday in the reception of the Beausoleil police station, the French city neighboring Monaco. There he had gone to pick up a car seized in Menton. With the intention of covering their tracks, it is believed that they also posed as someone else. From France, he fled to Italy, whose border is very close.

The victims of the attack in Monaco remain in critical condition. A judicial investigation has been opened for attempted murder and other charges, which has been assigned to three investigating judges.

The deputy prosecutor general of the Court of Monaco, Morgan Raymond, that the main suspect “did not act alone” and that she had carried out several reconnaissance missions before the explosion.

The explosive was sophisticated, and that is why the prosecutor believes that more people were involved in its construction.

The prosecutor declared that the suspect detonated the explosive placed on the stairs of the building “with a remote control”. His phone is seen in his hand in one of the photos. He waited for the victims on a bench from the Place des Moulins and then placed an explosive device, “taken from his supermarket bag”, on the stairs of the building. “He turned around to check if the victims were still there before detonating the explosive,” the deputy attorney general explained.

He declared that the facts “seem to indicate” that the suspect “did not act alone.”

Two men were arrested and taken into custody in Monaco on Wednesday, with the investigation reportedly finding no evidence of their active involvement. They were later released.

One of the three victims injured in the explosion remains in critical condition, according to Morgan Raymond, Monaco’s deputy prosecutor.

In addition to this seriously injured victim, another is in serious condition and three others suffered minor injuries. Two of the five victims are collateral damage, the deputy prosecutor added.

The wife of the Ukrainian oligarch targeted in the attack has had both legs amputated, although the prosecutor did not confirm her identity.

On Wednesday, the man was no longer in critical condition, but his partner’s condition remained unstable.

The Monegasque authorities still refuse to confirm the identity of the victims. However, the attack was directed against Vadim Ermolaev, 58 years old, a multimillionaire businessman originally from Ukraine and now a Cypriot citizen, as well as against his partner and his son.

He produced wine in the Crimea and Ukraine, and paid taxes to Russia. It is sanctioned by Ukraine and, especially, by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. He is one of the 84 Ukrainian oligarchs living in Monte Carlo since the start of the warand they call it “The Monaco Battalion.” He has no police record in the principality and arrived with Cypriot nationality.

The son was admitted to the Lenval Children’s Hospital in Nice in a stable condition, while the two adults, whose lives were in danger, were transferred to the University Hospital of Nice.

Vadim Ermolaev, a resident of Monaco since at least 2021, has been subject to sanctions in Ukraine since December 2023 for its commercial activities in Crimea, a territory annexed by Russia.