Six people, including four young children aged 1 to 3, were injured in a knife attack on Thursday June 8 in Annecy (Haute-Savoie). Little by little, the profile of the suspect becomes clearer.
A terrible drama. Thursday, June 8, a man attacked with a knife a group of people in Annecy (Haute-Savoie). Among the six victims are four children aged 1 to 3 years. The facts took place around 9:45 am, in a playground in the Pâquier district, located near Lake Annecy. A septuagenarian and two young children were seriously injured.
According to the information available BFM-TV, the profile of the suspect, who was arrested by the police a few minutes after the events, is gradually becoming clearer. According to our colleagues, who rely on police sources, it isa Syrian national born in 1991 and by the name of Abdalmasih H. After living in Sweden for ten years, the man arrived in France legally at the end of 2022. In November, he applied for asylum – under the normal procedure – in order toget refugee status.
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Attack suspect says he is a ‘Christian from Syria’
However, this request was denied to the suspect. And this, on the grounds that it already had a status in Sweden, but also in Italy and Switzerland, details the news channel. Therefore, although he formulated a second asylum application in France – which was refused on June 4, four days before these attacks – the man found himself in an irregular situation on French territory.
The suspect, who presents himself as an Eastern Christianshouted “in the name of Jesus Christ” at the time of the attacks, continues BFM TV. When the police arrested him, he had in his possession a Christian prayer book and a cross. In his asylum application file, he wrote that he was a “Syrian Christian”. The 30-year-old, who is married to a Swedish woman and father of a 3-year-old girl, was taken into custody. For now, his motives remain to be clarified. He has no documented psychological disorder or criminal history.
After the tragedy, several people spoke at the microphone of BFM TV. “He jumped up, started screaming, he headed for the strollers and started repeatedly stabbing the little ones”, had detailed a witness of the scene. And another to add: “He was clearly preying on babiesbecause there were several adults around.” Before a third person delivers this painful confidence: “I saw children on the ground, a mother on the ground too.”
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Children injured in the attack have been operated on
This Friday, June 9, Elisabeth Borne gave reassuring news of the victims, on the sidelines of a trip to the Bouches-du-Rhône. “All the injured children were able to be operated on”, said the Prime Minister, quoted by several media, including franceinfo. The politician then clarified that their condition was now “steady”.
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