The boss of the bar targeted by a grenade attack considers to have been targeted with the explosion while the investigators wonder about a link between the explosion and “any traffic”. The author of the attack is still wanted this Friday, February 14.
Did the explosion in Grenoble in the evening of February 12 aimed at the boss of the associative bar of the Olympic village district? According to the deputy prosecutor of the Republic of Grenoble François Touret de Coucy, “a person returned, launched a grenade, did not say a word, it seems, and then fled”. According to a police source at Parisianthe grenade spoon was found at the place of the explosion. A total of 15 people were injured, according to the Minister of Health Yannick Neuder. “At least two” are still with a committed vital prognosis.
A flagrance investigation had been opened by the Grenoble judicial court and entrusted to the DCOS (organized crime division, ex-judicial-political). According to The Dauphiné liberatedthis is now an open investigation for “attempted murders in an organized gang”. “No hypothesis is privileged and no track is excluded as to the mobile, but the track of a pure and simple attack is dismissed,” said the prosecutor on Wednesday evening. The associative bar which is in a priority district of Grenoble Visé is “a gathering place for people in the neighborhood and outside, and especially to watch football matches”, told AFP Chloé Pantel, deputy mayor from Grenoble.
A track linked to illegal traffic
However, a track seems to be specified: that of a possible settling of accounts or reprisals linked to traffic. A serious hypothesis in the “Grenoble context” and the extent of the drug trafficking that is organized there. The statements of the boss of the bar referred to by the Investigators’ Grenade attack could strengthen this hypothesis. According to Franceinfo, the 56 -year -old man told investigators to have been targeted by the explosion without giving more precise motivations to this gesture. The investigators were interested in the profile of the individual who presents 11 convictions in his criminal record. The last conviction dates back to November 2024 for money laundering, a decision from which he appealed.
The boss of the bar was not placed in police custody, unlike his 28 -year -old son who was kept for a few hours by the police for the detention of smuggling cigarettes that he had come to return Seek in the bar despite the perimeter established by the police. He was released Thursday evening and a preliminary investigation is open. The man has 13 convictions in his criminal record. He was notably convicted of the murder of Kevin and Sofiane in 2012 in Échirolles (Isère) and came out of prison in 2023. Since he has been sentenced to acts committed in detention (violence, contempt and concealment) or even for subrogation of Witness in April 2024.
The author of the Granada attack is still wanted this Friday, February 14. “Everything is done to find” the suspect, assured François Touret de Coucy at the microphone of BFMTV. According to the Attorney General, Christophe Barret, the assailant had a Kalashnikov type assault rifle in his possession. However, he would not have used it.
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12:52 – Bruno Retaille is denounced an “attack” and promises that managers will be “chastised”
During his speech in Grenoble, Bruno Retailleau castigated an “attack”. “It is unacceptable in terms of violence.” He believes that the use of a grenade is a “war technique”. “All limits have been exceeded.” The Minister of the Interior called to “mobilize” and “denounce this kind of act”, speaking of “organized crime” and “hyperviolence”. According to him, we must “review our approach from top to bottom in the face of younger and younger offenders”. He promises that the authors of the attack will be “found” and “chastised”.
12:44 – The bar was under a closure for “several trafficking”
Bruno Retailleau spoke at midday about the grenade attack in a Grenoble bar. On site, he said that the associative bar should be closed because “several traffic had been detected there in recent months. “There is never chance,” says the Minister of the Interior.
The manager of the manager was also arrested and placed in police custody by the police when he was trying to bypass the security cord. He would have been in possession of many packs of smuggling cigarettes.
11:31 – The boss of the bar is sure to have been targeted
The boss of the associative bar which was targeted by a grenade attack in Grenoble told investigators being convinced that he was the target of the assailant. However, he did not specify the reasons why he could have been referred to Franceinfo. The 56 -year -old man presents a criminal record filled with 11 convictions, the last of which dates back to November 2024 for money laundering.