Children stabbed in knife attack in Annecy, France

Nabil Anas

Global Courant

PARIS — An attacker stabbed four young children and two adults with a knife in a French mountain town on Thursday before being arrested, police said.

Police said the children were only three years old and three of the injured – two children and an adult – were in serious condition. Two other children suffered minor injuries, police said.

President Emmanuel Macron said in a tweet that the suspect had carried out “an attack of cowardice” and said those injured were “between life and death”.

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Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said in a tweet that the suspect was “arrested thanks to the very swift intervention of the police”.

François Astorg, the mayor of Annecy, called the attack “appalling” and said there would be a press conference later.

The suspect is a 31-year-old of Syrian descent, but a motive was unclear, police said.

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