French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday met with public safety authorities and emergency personnel who responded to the knife attack in the Alpine town of Annecy that left four children and two adults wounded
Well-wishers laid flowers on Friday at the playground where the suspect, said by the government to be a 31-year-old Syrian refugee, struck on Thursday morning, apparently targetting young children.
Macron, who has called the attack an "act of absolute cowardice", visited the hospital in Grenoble where three of the four children are being treated before heading to nearby Annecy. Annecy Prosecutor Line Bonnet-Mathis said she was extending the suspect's custody for further interrogation. She has said there was no indication that terrorism was the motivation and that the suspect was under investigation for attempted murder.
The attack has laid bare the tensions between Europe's free movement rights and the pressure governments in countries like France and Italy are coming under from voters to toughen immigration laws as societies shift rightwards politically.
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