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Lyons explosion. A labor dispute as much as an attack?

(B2) The circumstances of the "attack" in Lyon were quickly clarified by the judicial authorities and the Minister of the Interior.

1° The deceased person is the assailant's boss. It is therefore not a stranger, a passerby, the representative of an authority or a symbol or a personality.

2° The assailant then transported the body to another company where he was known to be making deliveries.

3° He tried to blow up stored gas cylinders, triggering a first explosion. So he didn't have a bomb with him. It was when he was about to repeat his gesture that he was brought under control by the firefighters who intervened on the site.

We would therefore be more in a 'mix' of settling scores than of terrorist attacks in the classic sense of the term, even if the macabre staging suggests it.

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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