Three projectiles were thrown over the perimeter wall of Russia's consulate in the southern French port city of Marseille on Monday, two of which exploded, Marseille police said. The incendiary devices were thrown into the gardens of the consulate in France's second-largest city by population.

An explosion took place after plastic bottles were thrown at the Russian consulate building in Marseille. The incident comes on the third anniversary of the war in Ukraine.

Russia on Monday demanded a full French investigation into an explosion at its consulate in Marseille which it said looked like an act of terrorism, state news agency TASS said.

One person has died and several are wounded following a knife attack at a town market in eastern France, in what French authorities have described as an act of terror.

As he began his attack, the 37-year-old was heard shouting, “Allahu akbar,” according to France’s antiterrorism police. The Arabic phrase, meaning “God is great,” is an everyday expression used in religious and nonreligious settings alike, but has also become a war cry in some terrorist attacks by Islamic fundamentalists.