France Stabbing: Victims In Stable Conditioion

Four young children who were stabbed in a park in Annecy, in France’s south-east, are now in a stable condition, officials said

The children, aged between one and three, are being treated in hospital.

Police overpowered and arrested the knifeman after he entered a children’s playground to carry out the attack.

“A three-year-old British child is among the injured, and another is Dutch. Two adults were also hurt, with one in a critical condition.”

Police have confirmed that the suspect is a 31-year-old Syrian who had refugee status in Sweden.

Regional deputy Antoine Armand described the attack as “abominable” and said authorities were investigating but knew “very little.”

Video footage of the attack uploaded to social media – too graphic for broadcast – shows a little playground, with life going on as normal. Children are running around, and their parents and minders are there.

“Then a man comes in with a knife, and very quickly, there are screams. He’s clearly looking for children to attack – and he attacks one in a pushchair.”

French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne and Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin went to the scene of the attack.

Ms. Borne told a news conference that the attacker has “no criminal or psychiatric record.”

Annecy prosecutor Line Bonnet-Mathis told reporters that the young victims ranged from 22 months old to three years.

There “doesn’t seem to be any kind of terrorist motivation,” she said.

BBC/Shakirat Sadiq
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