Chilling stories. This Thursday, June 8, around 9:45 a.m., a man has attacked several people with a knife in a playground in the Parc du Pâquier, on the shores of Lac d’Annecy (Haute-Savoie). A total of six victims, two adults and four minors, aged between 1 and 3 years old, were injured, as indicated BFM TV. Among them, an adult and two children are in absolute emergency. The individual, aged 31 and of Syrian nationality, was arrested by the police. He does not appear in police files and has refugee status in Sweden, according to a police source.
Following the tragedy, several people who attended the scene spoke, drawing up a horrific record. “He jumped up, started screaming, he headed for the strollers and started banging repeated stab wounds to children“told BFM TV a certain Ferdinand. “I’ve been warned he’s planting everyone, planting children, he’s got a knife, he’s still running”assured Malo for his part. “He was clearly preying on babiesbecause there were several adults around”he added. “I saw children on the ground, a mother on the ground too”also lamented Anthony to our colleagues.
“I saw a baby full of blood”
“We heard cries like animals”more and more “terrifying”Then “we understood that there was something serious”told the Dauphiné liberated a high school girl named Mathilde. “We immediately said: ‘he attacks the children’”said the girl before ensuring to have seen “a mother recovering a child from the ground”. “I was panicked”, she concluded. “
“We saw a person attacking children in games, small ones, obviously, that was his target”entrusted another witness to the microphone of France Blue Country of Savoy. “Afterwards, people tried to scare him, he moved away and the police intervened”, he argued. “He jumped the park fence and stabbed a little girl and then a baby in a stroller“added a woman who also attended the scene. “I saw a first child crossing the road, it was a baby who was full of blood”recounted with horror Christina, who works in the park, always with the local radio.
Footballer Anthony Le Tallec recounts the scene
Also present on site, former footballer Anthony Le Tallecwho was jogging, explained in his Instagram story that he saw “dozens of people [courir] in all directions”. “There’s a mama telling me, ‘Run, run, there’s someone stabbing everyonewho stabbed children, run, run!” he continued. “I see cops who are 5 or 10 meters behind [l’assaillant], who can’t stop him. He comes towards me, so I move away a little”he detailed, before indicating that the individual, still armed with a knife, then went to a retired couple.
“He attacks the grandpa. The cops behind him can’t catch him. I tell them: ‘But shoot him, kill him! He’s stabbing everyone!’ He stabs him once, twice and then they start shooting in front of me on the person, who falls to the ground. But hey, the grandpa was already affected”also revealed the athlete.