Gunshots were exchanged between the conveyors and the perpetrators of the attack. Two people were slightly injured in road accidents.
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A cash-in-transit van was attacked shortly after 10 a.m. on the morning of Thursday October 10, in the city center of Grenoble (Isère). The facts took place “at the corner of Cours Berriat and Jean-Jaurès”specifies the prefecture of Isère on “udo not attack with weapons. “Police officers and firefighters are on site. Please avoid the area”she also warns.
According to the first elements communicated by the Grenoble police to France 3, it is “of an attack on an armored van. Several shots were exchanged between the conveyors and the perpetrators of the attack, which caused a fire on a white van”. This is confirmed by passers-by contacted by France Bleu. One of them mentions “around ten shots”.
“A cash conveyor van was hit by a white van, it was followed by two Mercedes cars. Men got out of the vehicles with heavy weapons. Exchanges of fire followed”reported another witness on local radio. Two minor injuries are to be deplored, “hit by shards of glass” following road accidents “provoked by the event”according to the Grenoble prosecutor, Eric Vaillant. An investigation has been opened.