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Twelve people were injured after a Granada was thrown into a busy bar in the French city of Grenoble, local authorities said.
The incident occurred at the Aksehir bar shortly after 20:00 local time (19:00 GMT) on Wednesday night, leaving two people in a critical condition.
The reason for the attack is not clear, but researchers say “it may be linked to a score settlement.”
Prosecutor Francois Touret-de-Courcey said that ocular witness accounts suggest that the suspect, which is not yet identified, may also have taken a Kalashnikov assault rifle.
Speaking to journalists on the scene, he said: “There is nothing that makes us think that it is linked to terrorism,” describing the incident as an “act of extreme violence.”
He added that the researchers were looking for possible connections with drug trafficking.
The authorities said that many people were in the place, located in the neighborhood of the city’s Olympic village, when the suspect briefly entered.
Some 80 firefighters and police officers were deployed at the scene with the remaining area cordoned off Thursday morning, reports the French newspaper Le Figaro.
Vice President Chloe Pantel told the AFP news agency that the place was “a place where the locals and people from outside the neighborhood meet, especially to see football matches.”
The police presence in the area will remain for a while, he added.
Publishing in X, Mayor Eric Piolle condemned what he described as a “criminal act of extraordinary violence”, before thanking the rescue and security forces “for their rapid intervention.”
