French "police" are the only ones using these , against their own people , in whole Europe ... https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenade_GLI-F4 "La grenade lacrymogène instantanée GLI F4 (ou SAE 810) est une grenade lacrymogène et assourdissante, contenant une charge explosive constituée de 25 grammes de TNT. Elle est utilisée par les forces de l'ordre françaises depuis 2011. La France est le seul pays européen à l'utiliser pour le maintien de l'ordre. Elle peut causer de graves mutilations voire tuer." 25 g of explosive . "It has been used by French law enforcement since 2011. France is the only European country to use it for the maintenance of order. It can cause severe mutilations or even kill." Chucking these types of grenades isnt something new to French police , as it seems they used even worse OF F1 grenades before , which killed one protester ( Remi Fraisse ) in 2014.  To compare , the explosive filling of BATTLE grenade is ranging somewhere from 50-130 g of explosives . Depending on the type . This one is 25 g of explosive and is more than enough to cause any kind of mutilation , even death . I have been trying out some very powerful firecrackers ( grade III ) before , where filling was around 8-10 grams , and they could easily blown off anyones hand if held , they were dangerous and could cause "shrapnels" if thrown close to pieces of rocks or shards of glass . Fortunately , they banned these biggest types of firecrackers in my country , as you know , some stupid kids would find a way to get to them ...  On November 24th 2018. , one man lost his hand to this grenade . Today , on 9th Dec , it occured again .    Some call these types of grenades as "flashbang" - which is characterized as "non-lethal" . Non-lethal my ass . And French police were the only ones in Europe using them ... if these types of grenades would land somewhere in macadam or similar , you would have bunch of tiny rocks flying in all directions ...