Twelve people injured after man throws grenade into French bar

There is no evidence linking this to a terrorist attack,

Touret-de-Courcy stated, describing it as "an act of extreme violence" that could be connected to a personal dispute or criminal activity

We can rule out a purely terrorist attack since there is nothing that leads us to believe that it is linked to terrorism,

said the prosecutor

Everything must be studied; we cannot say at this stage if it is linked to drug trafficking,

he explained

Someone came in and threw a grenade, apparently without saying a word, and ran away,

Deputy Prosecutor François Touret-de-Courcy told journalists at the scene, where emergency workers had cordoned off the area

Éric Piollegrenoble Mayor

I condemn in the strongest possible terms the criminal act of unprecedented violence that took place in a shop in the Olympic Village district, which caused more than 10 injuries, several of them serious,

Grenoble Mayor Eric Piolle said late on Wednesday

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."

It was a criminal act, most likely a grenade

Speaking from the scene, she said