President Emmanuel Macron called a package blast on a pedestrian street in the heart of France's city of Lyon on Friday an “attack” after the device wounded more than a dozen people just two days ahead of the country's hotly contested European Parliament elections. The blast occurred in the early evening in the city's central shopping area, and authorities were searching for the culprit.
French President Emmanuel Macron characterized the blast as an attack shortly after it happened, telling an interviewer: "I'm late because there was an attack in Lyon." Police were hunting a man believed to be in his early 30s on a mountain bicycle who witnesses and security cameras saw in the area immediately before the explosion.
