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Grenade blast in French bar wounds 12
KAKE ^ | 2-12-25 | KAKE Witchita

Posted on 02/12/2025 7:32:48 PM PST by dynachrome

Twelve people were wounded when a grenade exploded in a bar in France's southeastern city of Grenoble on Wednesday, officials said.

"Someone came in and threw a grenade, apparently without saying a word, and ran away," prosecutor Francois Touret-de-Courcy told journalists at the scene, where emergency workers had cordoned off the area.

Two people were in critical condition, he said, adding that "many clients" were present when the grenade exploded, shortly after 8:00 pm (1900 GMT) at the bar in the Olympic Village neighbourhood, built when the picturesque city hosted the 1968 Winter Olympics.

Touret-de-Courcy said investigators had not yet identified a motive but did not believe it was a "terrorist attack".

"There's nothing to make us think it's linked to terrorism," he said, calling it an "act of extreme violence" that "may be linked to a settling of scores".

Investigators are looking at a possible connection to drug trafficking, he said, adding that some accounts indicated the suspect was also carrying a Kalashnikov assault rifle.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; France; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 12wounded; france; grenade
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"There's nothing to make us think it's linked to terrorism," he said, calling it an "act of extreme violence"

Or a drug turf war.

1 posted on 02/12/2025 7:32:48 PM PST by dynachrome
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It is amazing how fast they know it is NOT terrorism.


2 posted on 02/12/2025 7:34:50 PM PST by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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“”There’s nothing to make us think it’s linked to terrorism,” he said”

In other words, it was a Muslim.


3 posted on 02/12/2025 7:35:19 PM PST by BobL
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To: dynachrome

I’ve seen a few shootings in various bars, but never a grenade.


4 posted on 02/12/2025 7:37:13 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Wasn’t a Muzzie...he’d have wanted to go down on his 72 virgins.


5 posted on 02/12/2025 7:38:58 PM PST by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: dynachrome

An alla snack bar pineapple...


6 posted on 02/12/2025 7:39:34 PM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: dynachrome

Inspector Clouseau is on the case.


7 posted on 02/12/2025 7:39:54 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
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Not terrorism in spite of the fact that an explosive device was thrown into a quiet peaceful bar thus terrorizing people.


8 posted on 02/12/2025 7:41:14 PM PST by DouglasKC
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"There's nothing to make us think it's linked to terrorism," he said, calling it an "act of extreme violence" that "may be linked to a settling of scores".

Oh sure.

9 posted on 02/12/2025 7:43:44 PM PST by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: BobL

Or John Bolton with his coveted award...


10 posted on 02/12/2025 7:44:34 PM PST by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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To: dynachrome

But grenades are illegal.


11 posted on 02/12/2025 7:44:47 PM PST by alternatives?
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To: dynachrome

Did the French surrender?


12 posted on 02/12/2025 7:45:15 PM PST by nwrep
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To: dynachrome

Did the French surrender?


13 posted on 02/12/2025 7:45:15 PM PST by nwrep
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To: dynachrome

Did the French surrender?


14 posted on 02/12/2025 7:45:15 PM PST by nwrep
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To: dynachrome

Did the French surrender?


15 posted on 02/12/2025 7:45:15 PM PST by nwrep
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To: dynachrome

Did the French surrender?


16 posted on 02/12/2025 7:45:15 PM PST by nwrep
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To: dynachrome

Did the French surrender?


17 posted on 02/12/2025 7:45:15 PM PST by nwrep
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To: dynachrome

Did the French surrender?


18 posted on 02/12/2025 7:45:15 PM PST by nwrep
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To: dynachrome

Did the French surrender?


19 posted on 02/12/2025 7:45:15 PM PST by nwrep
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To: nwrep

We head you the first time. LOL.


20 posted on 02/12/2025 7:46:38 PM PST by Labyrinthos
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