Attack in Munich, bomb planted by a Ukrainian woman: passage from Italy to Switzerland

The investigations: “The suspect is Ukrainian. She didn’t act alone, she’s already in Germany”

It took investigators 48 hours to identify the main suspect in the explosion, the Monegasque deputy prosecutor, Morgan Raymond, said in a press conference, according to whom the woman had accomplices and would have already arrived in Germany, where he resides. According to the prosecutor’s office – writes Le Figaro – it is a woman 39 year old Ukrainian woman named Anastasia Berezovskawho “would not have acted alone. The judicial investigation focused on the existence of accomplices. The relative sophistication of the explosive device and the modus operandi seem to indicate that the person who planted the device did not act alone. Two other male people – he added – were arrested in recent days, but nothing allows us to establish their complicity. Their precautionary custody has been revoked”.

According to the information in the hands of the investigators, the affected family, that of the Ukrainian oligarch Vadim Ermolaev, was returning from a dinner by the sea at the time of the events. The suspect allegedly “extracted a package hidden in a bag”, before going to the doorway of the building to verify the victims’ identities. The bomb would have been later operated via “a remote control”the prosecutor specified. The suspect, one brunette woman with shoulder-length hair appears in two photos released together with the prosecutor’s statementwhere he wears a short-sleeved Breton-striped T-shirt that reveals a tattoo on his upper right arm, “possibly a snake,” according to the notice.

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The suspect, a Ukrainian woman, was identified as “Anastasiia Berezovska”, 39, wanted in connection with the investigation into the attempted bombing of a Ukrainian businessman.
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Ma the first video surveillance images showed what at first glance appeared to be “a man”, wearing a black cap and loose clothing. A more in-depth analysis of the recordings made it possible to identify several passages of the same figure, dressed in identical clothing and carrying the same bag, a few days earlier in the principality. This identification also made it possible to trace a vehicle registered in Germany, a rental car identified in Monaco. tracing his route allowed us to reconstruct his journey to Italy, then through several European countries, until his return home to Germany“, added the prosecutor.

German residence searched

German security forces have meanwhile searched the woman’s home in Germany. The suspect has not been found, according to German police. “They were evidence seized which will be handed over to the Monegasque authorities“, reads a joint statement from the Hesse regional police and the Frankfurt public prosecutor’s office, which adds that “the wanted woman is currently at large“.