LIVE – Knife attack in Annecy: the four injured children are in absolute emergency

A man attacked several people with a knife this Thursday morning in a park near Lake Annecy (Haute-Savoie). At least six people were injured, two adults and four children.

We take stock of the information known at this time on these events.

A witness filmed the suspect at the scene. We see on the video a man running, a knife in his hand. A man was arrested after the stabbing that injured six people, including four young children.

“Today is amazement, pain, support for families, medical emergencies, but not political controversy,” said Haute-Savoie senator Loïc Hervé on BFMTV.

The chosen one calls for “decency” and not to “launch a debate” today.

“We are in the period of emergency management, political controversies and the time for consequences will come,” he said.

The results of the attack in Annecy are changing. According to the prefecture of Haute-Savoie, at noon, four children and two adults were injured with a knife in a park this morning.

Two children and an adult have a vital prognosis, learned BFMTV from a police source. The attacker is not injured.

“The most absolute horror has struck our children in Annecy”, denounces on Twitter the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti.

“Thank you to the police for their rapid intervention. Justice is seized and the public prosecutor of Annecy is on the spot”, he writes, addressing his thoughts “to the victims and their families”.

“It’s an abominable attack”, explained to the tribune of the National Assembly Gabriel Attal.

“It upsets us all and leaves us all deeply bruised. These are children, our children”, further explained the Minister Delegate for Public Accounts in the hemicycle, in reaction to the knife attack in Annecy.

The four injured children are in absolute emergency.

Malo and Ferdinand witnessed the attack in Annecy on Thursday. They tell on BFMTV what they saw in the park where the attack took place.

The four children injured this Thursday in Annecy are in absolute emergency, learned BFMTV from a police source.

They were injured by a man armed with a knife in a park. An adult was also affected.

“It’s horror, it’s unspeakable, it’s abominable”, explained Antoine Armand, Renaissance deputy for Annecy at the microphone of BFMTV, after the knife attack around the lake.

Annecy “is a humanist city, open to Europe and the world”, making this gesture “even more horrible”, further explained the elected representative of Haute-Savoie.

The deputy who goes there with Elisabeth Borne also assured the families of victims of “all his support”.

Emmanuel Macron denounces in a tweet “an attack of absolute cowardice”.

“Children and an adult are between life and death. The Nation is in shock. Our thoughts are with them as well as their families and the rescue services mobilized”, he also writes.

The president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region, Laurent Wauquiez, is going to Annecy this Thursday, according to information from BFMTV.

“This attack on children is the height of abomination,” he said in a tweet.

The profile of the suspect becomes clearer. The man arrested, Abdalmasih H., is of Syrian nationality and had applied for asylum in France in November.

In April, he was granted refugee status in Sweden, BFMTV learned from a police source. He is not known to the police.

“Appalling attack this morning on the Pâquier in Annecy. All my thoughts to the victims and families,” wrote the mayor of Annecy, François Astorg, on Twitter.

He will speak at 12.30 p.m. with the prefect of Haute-Savoie and the public prosecutor of Annecy.

“We ask you to avoid the Pâquier sector for the smooth running of operations,” he adds.

While jogging by the lake, Anthony witnessed part of the attack that took place this morning in Annecy. He tells what he saw on BFMTV.

The reactions of political figures are linked on Twitter. The head of deputies RN Marine Le Pen addresses her “thoughts” to the victims and their loved ones.

“How can we attack children? No words can describe such horror…”, affirms the national secretary of the PCF, Fabien Roussel.

“Thank you to the intervention and rescue forces,” writes LFI deputy François Ruffin.

Emmanuel Macron “of course follows the situation”, says the Elysée to BFMTV.

The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, and the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, will go there during the day.

The man arrested on Thursday, suspected of having attacked children with a knife in Annecy, is a Syrian asylum seeker, according to information from BFMTV.

Born in 1991, he returned regularly to French soil, learned BFMTV from a police source.

The president of the Republicans, Eric Ciottin declares his “tremendous emotion” and his “great anger” after the events of this morning in Annecy.

“All my support to the families and the victims,” ​​he also said.

The head of the LFI deputies, Mathilde Panot, says her “horror” and her “dread” after the knife attack which injured young children in Annecy on Thursday.

“Words fail,” she added on Twitter, saying her “support for the injured and their families”.

“Horrified by this knife attack in Annecy. All my thoughts are with the children and their families”, declared also the deputy LFI Manuel Bompard.

The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, will go to Annecy on Thursday, Matignon announced to BFMTV, confirming information from AFP.

In the National Assembly, the deputies observed a minute of silence for the victims of the attack.

The man suspected of having carried out this attack was arrested by the police, announced the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, on Twitter.

Hello everyone and welcome to this live. An individual attacked several children, aged around 3, with knives, this Thursday morning in a park near Lake Annecy, in Haute-Savoie, according to concordant sources at BFMTV.

The attack left five injured, including four children, according to our information. Two children are in absolute emergency.