At least a dozen people were wounded after a grenade was thrown into a packed bar by a man brandishing a Kalashnikov rifle in the French Alpine city of Grenoble.
The bar is in a socially deprived area frequented by numerous drug gangs, and a man was seen brandishing a Kalashnikov rifle that was not fired, he said.
François Touret de Coucy, the deputy prosecutor of Grenoble, confirmed the theory, saying that it was “a grenade thrown by someone that caused the explosion”.
In November, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said they were being used in numerous towns and cities around France.
Mr Touret de Coucy said no theory for the attack had yet been ruled out, although terrorism was not being prioritised.
