Twelve folks have been injured after a grenade was thrown right into a busy bar within the French metropolis of Grenoble, native authorities have stated.
The incident occurred on the Aksehir bar shortly after 20:00 native time (19:00 GMT) on Wednesday night, leaving two folks in vital situation.
The motive for the assault is just not clear however investigators say it “could also be linked to a settling of scores”.
Prosecutor Francois Touret-de-Courcey stated eyewitness accounts recommend the suspect, who’s as but unidentified, can also have been carrying a Kalashnikov assault rifle.
Chatting with reporters on the scene, he stated: “There’s nothing to make us assume it is linked to terrorism,” describing the incident as an “act of maximum violence”.
He added that investigators had been doable connections to drug trafficking.
Authorities stated many individuals had been on the venue, positioned within the metropolis’s Olympic Village neighbourhood, when the suspect briefly entered.
Some 80 firefighters and law enforcement officials had been deployed to the scene with the realm remaining cordoned off on Thursday morning, French paper Le Figaro experiences.
Deputy Mayor Chloe Pantel informed the AFP information company that the venue was “a spot the place locals and other people from exterior the neighbourhood collect, particularly to observe soccer matches”.
Police presence within the space will stay for some time, she added.
Posting on X, Mayor Eric Piolle condemned what he described as a “felony act of extraordinary violence,” earlier than thanking rescue and safety forces “for his or her fast intervention”.
