At least 12 injured in grenade attack on a bar in grenoble

At least 12 injured in grenade attack on a bar in grenoble

French authorities now discard the existence of terrorist motivations in the incident

At least 12 people were injured on Wednesday, two gravity, in an attack with a grenade in a community bar in the city of Grenoble, in southeastern France.

Grenoble prosecutor François Touret de Coucy said he had no clues about the origin of the attack, although he discarded, “a priori”, which was of a terrorist nature.

At around 8:15 pm (7:15 pm in Lisbon), a community bar at Rue Claude-Kogan, in the Vila Olympic neighborhood, was hit by an explosive grenade launched by a person who has not yet been identified, the EFE agency reported.

The mayor of Grenoble, Éric Piolle, condemned on social network “a criminal act of unprecedented violence.”

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