Twelve folks have been injured, some critically, after a grenade was thrown right into a bar in southeastern France.
It occurred in a working-class space of Grenoble shortly after 8pm on Wednesday, the native prefecture stated.
“A person came in, threw a grenade, didn’t say a word, it seems, and then fled,” prosecutor François Touret de Coucy stated.
The assailant was carrying a Kalashnikov-type assault rifle he didn’t use, the prosecutor added.
All of the injured have been taken to the Grenoble Alpes College Hospital, BFMTV reported.
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Eric Piolle, the mayor of Grenoble, stated he condemned within the “strongest terms” the “criminal act of unprecedented violence that occurred in a business in the Olympic Village district”.
He thanked the emergency and safety forces for his or her “rapid intervention”.
The prefecture prolonged its “full support to the victims and their loved ones” and condemned what it known as “this cowardly and criminal act”.
The CRS – nationwide police reserves – have been “immediately deployed” to “secure the area”, it added.
