France: A hooded person with a firearm shoots into the air in the street in Grenoble, shouting “Allah Akbar”, several streets are blocked, schoolchildren taken to safety

Several streets in the south of Grenoble were closed on Thursday April 7 after a man was spotted on the street carrying a handgun. According to police, he had fired into the air, shouted “Allahu akbar” in the area and chased two people who were near a dealing point. The suspect was arrested.

Residents and students on the outskirts of the Abbaye and Teisseire neighbourhoods in Grenoble witnessed an exciting afternoon on Thursday April 7, when a shooting and the arrest of two men, aged 50 and 22, took place.

Around noon, the headmistress of the Grand Châtelet school called the police. A mother of a pupil reported that a person in the area had made use of a firearm. At least this is what the nun who witnessed the incident assured the police.

According to the police, the hooded person even shouted “Allahu akbar” in the neighbourhood before firing from his handgun.

Several squads of patrol cars were deployed to the scene. Some streets in the neighbourhood were cordoned off. Students were kept in the schools.

France 3

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