On June 8, they set out in pursuit of the assailant who, knife in hand, had just stabbed four children playing in a park along Lake Annecy and two adults. The five municipal police officers, who intervened to control him, will be decorated with the National Order of Merit, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin indicated this Thursday on his X account.
For the moment, no date has been communicated. But France’s top cop said it was his proposal, accepted by Emmanuel Macron.
Furthermore, “the hero with the backpack”, who had also tried to stop the attacker, received the badge of Knight of the Legion of Honor last July, we learn from Parisian.
“No terrorist motivation”
The attacker, aged 31, was indicted for “attempted murder” and has since been placed in pre-trial detention. The man, who told investigators “to be a Christian from Syria”, lived for several years in Sweden where he married and had a child. “Unknown to the intelligence services”, he had arrived in France, eight months before his act.
At the time of the events, he was “neither under the influence of narcotics nor under the influence of alcohol”, Annecy prosecutor Line Bonnet-Mathis then indicated, specifying that he was not suffering from any symptoms either. known psychiatric history. “No terrorist motivation” appeared at this stage of the investigation, she added. He has still not explained the reasons for his action.