Twelve folks have been injured after a grenade was thrown right into a busy bar within the French metropolis of Grenoble, native authorities have mentioned.
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 will not be clear however investigators say it “could also be linked to a settling of scores”.
Prosecutor Francois Touret-de-Courcey mentioned eyewitness accounts counsel the suspect, who’s as but unidentified, may have been carrying a Kalashnikov assault rifle.
Talking to reporters on the scene, he mentioned: “There’s nothing to make us suppose it is linked to terrorism,” describing the incident as an “act of utmost violence”.
He added that investigators had been potential connections to drug trafficking.
Authorities mentioned many individuals had been on the venue, situated within the metropolis’s Olympic Village neighbourhood, when the suspect briefly entered.
Some 80 firefighters and cops had been deployed to the scene with the realm remaining cordoned off on Thursday morning, French paper Le Figaro studies.
Deputy Mayor Chloe Pantel instructed the AFP information company that the venue was “a spot the place locals and other people from outdoors the neighbourhood collect, particularly to look at 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 “prison act of extraordinary violence,” earlier than thanking rescue and safety forces “for his or her speedy intervention”.
