Twelve people were wounded, at least two critically, when a grenade was thrown into a packed bar in the city of Grenoble in south-eastern France.
The mayor of Grenoble, Éric Piolle, wrote on X: “I condemn in the strongest possible terms this criminal act of extraordinary violence.” He also thanked the emergency services for their work.
The coordinator of Grenoble hospital’s emergency plan, Pierre Bouzat, told Le Dauphiné Libéré newspaper: “The injuries are those normally seen in a war zone”.
An attacker carrying an automatic rifle reportedly entered the bar on Wednesday evening and threw the grenade before fleeing without saying a word.
The local public prosecutor François Touret de Courcy described the attack as “an act of extreme violence”.
