Warning: this article contains graphic content. A man with a knife stabbed four toddlers and preschool-aged children and two adults, leaving some with life-threatening injuries, in a city in the French Alps on Thursday.
A man with a knife stabbed four children and two adults in a city in the French Alps.The suspect was apprehended by police and was not previously known to security agencies.A woman identified as the attacker’s ex-wife told BFM TV that her former partner was a Christian.A man with a knife stabbed four toddlers and preschool-aged children and two adults, leaving some with life-threatening injuries, in a city in the French Alps on Thursday.
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said France had recently rejected an asylum application made by the man, given that he had obtained asylum in Sweden 10 years ago and was therefore already legally residing in the European Union.Police officers near the scene of a knife attack on Thursday in Annecy in the French Alps.
The attacker slashed at a man who tried to approach him. Inside the enclosed play park, a panicked woman frantically pushed a stroller as the attacker approached, yelling, “Help! Help!”She tried to fend off the attacker but couldn’t keep him from leaning over the stroller and stabbing downward. Afterwards, the man strolled almost casually out of the park, letting himself out through a gate, with the man who had earlier tried to stop him chasing after him.
Bonnet-Mathis told a press conference an investigation based on charges of attempted murder was under way. The suspect was in police custody and had no known terrorist motive, she said.
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