Twelve people were injured in the French city of Grenoble after an explosion of a grenade who had thrown a man on Wednesday evening into a neighborhood café. French media and the French news agency AFP. According to Catherine Séguin, an official from the region, six people are in a critical condition.
The man, who may also have been armed with a Kalajsnikov, threw the grenade in a full cafe around eight o’clock on Wednesday evening. “A person came in, did not say a word, threw the grenade and fled,” said the public prosecutor of the city. According to him, a terrorist motive is currently excluded.
Possibly it would be a settlement, where a possible link with the drug environment was investigated. According to the public prosecutor, the bar would not have given any reason to take care of it. The deputy mayor Chloé Pantel labeled it as a place where people from the neighborhood mainly viewed football matches.
There are regular cases of arms violence in the Grenoble area that are related to drug trafficking. “We have experienced shootings, but a grenade thrown into a room full of people, I have never seen that,” said a local resident in return for Le Parisien
The mayor of the city, Eric Piolle, said social media condemn the “criminal act of unprecedented violence”. The explosion fell in a neighborhood called Village Olympique, an Olympic village that was built in 1968 for the Winter Games in Grenoble.
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