Granada attack in a Grenoble bar: the author always sought after

Police are actively looking for a man who injured a man who was throwing a pomegranate in a popular district of Grenoble in Grenoble, where the inhabitants say to each other “Shocked” But not totally surprised by this violence.

Agents are posted in front of Aksehir, an associative bar in the Olympic village district, where calm returned to the aftermath of the attack, whose mobile remains unknown even if the terrorist track is “A priori” Discarded.

“I heard a big boom, I looked and I thought it was not a firecracker or a fireworks”says Agnès Lefebvre-Paquet, a septuagenarian crossed on site by AFP. Without asking more questions, however: “I thought it was problems in the neighborhood. »»

“We are all shocked, all, all”adds one of his neighbors, still in a dressing gown and who does not want to give his name. “It’s been 30 years that we have lived there and it’s worse in worse”she continues, confident that she had spent a « nuit horrible ».

The day before, around 8:15 p.m., a man entered the bar, where many customers were. Without saying a word, he threw a grenade before fleeing, according to the prosecutor François Touret de Coucy. He was perhaps armed with a long Kalachikov type weapon but did not use it.

The deflagration has made many victims: 12 people were taken care of by firefighters, two of which the vital prognosis is engaged, according to a police source.

The Minister of Health Yannick Neuder was expected in the morning at the Grenoble University Hospital, where the injured were hospitalized.

“Anything is possible”

The author of this attack was still on the run Thursday morning, according to a police source. “The investigation continues”commented the prosecutor without wanting to say more.

The day before, the magistrate had explained that no track was privileged. “We can exclude the purely terrorist attack”he said, but for the rest, “It can be a settling of accounts” related “In drug trafficking, cigarette trafficking, an exacerbated enmity …”

The targeted bar, whose name refers to a Turkish city but which would be held by Algerians and frequented by a male clientele according to its neighbors, did not raise any particular concerns, “said Touret de Coucy.

Karim, a municipal agent who does not wish to give his name, is a regular, where he has coffee every morning when he cleanses the adjacent place.

“Usually, it’s clean, it’s calm. There is nothing. We drink a coffee there, we chat ”he said, expressing his surprise. But “In Grenoble, anything is possible”he adds, disillusioned, while parents crowd to accompany their children to school.

The city regularly experiences episodes of violence, especially by firearms, linked to drug trafficking, the authorities having even mentioned last summer a “Gang war”.

The ecological mayor Eric Piolle, who went there Wednesday evening with the prosecutor and the prefect of Isère, also said “Farfful” facing this “Act of incredible violence”while deploring a “Climbing of violence” in the capital of the Alps.