The Monaco public prosecutor stated that Tuesday's explosion in the city center is not being investigated as a terrorist attack, according to a single incoming report. The announcement follows earlier reports of an improvised bomb and life-threatening injuries, which Monaco's Minister of State had called 'unprecedented'.
The Monaco public prosecutor told reporters that Tuesday’s explosion in the city center is not being investigated as a terrorist attack, according to a single incoming report. The statement came around midday Jerusalem time, several hours after the blast — which the principality’s Minister of State Christophe Mirmand had called “unprecedented” — and after an earlier round of reporting that pointed to an improvised explosive device and multiple wounded.
The evolution of the story began just before midnight Monday (Mon 23:53 Jerusalem) when initial reports described a suspected terrorist incident after a bag detonated near a building. Within that minute, The Zioneer covered a second wave in which police identified the device as an improvised explosive device, said three Ukrainians were wounded, and launched a manhunt for a suspected bomber. Two subsequent versions, also timestamped Mon 23:53, confirmed that Minister Mirmand had called the event unprecedented and that two of the three wounded were in life-threatening condition. The prosecutor’s current statement, however, contradicts the initial terror-incident framing without citing the device type or casualty count.
As background noted (The Zioneer, Tue 00:27 Jerusalem), the same facts — an improvised bomb, three wounded, two in critical condition, and a manhunt — were previously reported in line with an “unprecedented” characterization by the minister. The prosecutor’s clarification thus narrows the possible motive but does not address the device itself, the number of wounded, or the suspect’s identity.
What remains open: the prosecutor’s statement is based on a single source and has not been corroborated by additional official confirmation. The cause of the explosion, the status of the manhunt, and whether the wounded were indeed Ukrainians — as earlier police reports said — have not been resolved by this latest announcement.
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