On Wednesday evening, a man threw a fragmentation grenade into a café in Grenoble, leaving 15 people injured.
The following day, an Afghan shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ drove his car into a crowd in Munich and injured more than two dozen.
The previous week in Brussels, two men strolled through a metro station firing bursts from Kalashnikovs – one of several shootings that day in the Belgian capital, which wounded three people.
It is believed that Wednesday’s attack in Grenoble was the latest in the drugs war being fought across the country by rival cartels from North Africa. Last year, I described Grenoble as ‘one of the most dangerous places in France’, although there are other contenders.
Marseille, for example, where in the past two years scores of people have been killed by the cartels. Or Paris, where last month a 14-year-old boy was murdered for his phone.
Initially, some media reported that Elias had been stabbed with a knife after refusing to hand over his telephone to a 17-year-old.
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