Twelve individuals were injured, 6 seriously, after a grenade was tossed into a bar in Grenoble, southeastern France on Wednesday night, French media reported.
French district attorney Francois Touret de Coucy stated the enemy “can be found in, tossed a grenade, didn’t state a word, it appears, and after that left,” according to the report.
The enemy was likewise bring an attack rifle – comparable to a Kalashnikov – which he did not utilize, according to Touret de Coucy.
The event took place in the city’s Olympic Town district, constructed for the 1968 video games.
Attaque à la GRENADE en pleine ville de Grenoble.Notre pays devient un pays sous développé, rempli de fous qui souvent ne devraient même pas être en liberté et/ou en France.Soutien aux blessés, on espère qu’il n’ y a pas de morts pic.twitter.com/EgHQ44NidC
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Chloé Pantel, deputy mayor of sector 6 of Grenoble, informed AFP that the bar is “a meeting place for individuals from the community and from somewhere else, and is particularly popular for viewing football matches.”
Le Parisien reported that, according to a cops source, the grenade’s spoon was discovered at the scene of the surge. Some 80 firemens existed on the scene.
Terrorism dismissed
According to Touret de Coucy, terrorism has actually been dismissed, however otherwise, there are no leads regarding the intention yet. “Whatever needs to be studied; we can not state at this phase if it is connected to drug trafficking,” he discussed.
” We can eliminate a simply terrorist attack because there is absolutely nothing that leads us to think that it is connected to terrorism,” stated the district attorney.
The enemy is on the run and is yet to be determined. No arrests have actually been made, according to the reports.
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