An unknown perpetrator threw a grenade to the Grenoble bar full of clients in Grenoble in the south -east of France. As the prosecutor's office informed, as a result of the explosion 12 people were injured and two are in a critical condition. Mer Grenoble Eric Piolle called the event “a criminal act of extreme violence.”
The incident occurred on Wednesday late evening at a bar full of customers in the Olympic Village district, which was created for the purpose of organizing the Winter Olympic Games in 1968.
“Someone came, threw a grenade, apparently did not say a word, and then escaped,” prosecutor François Touret de Coucy said at the press.
According to the French daily, Le Dauphine Libere, who referred to the prosecutor's office, the attacker was also to be armed with Kalashnikov, but he did not use this weapon.
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“Criminal act of extreme violence”
For now, the authorities exclude “purely terrorist attack”.
Mer Grenoble Eric Piolle said that this is “a criminal act of extreme violence.”
The police suspect that the attack was related to drug trafficking and criminal counts. As the AFP agency writes, the authorities no longer hesitate to talk about the gang war in Grenoble and its suburbs.
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