French authorities are working to determine the motive behind a “savage” knife attack on infants who were playing in a park next to an idyllic lake in a French Alps town.
The head of the investigation into the stabbing said the four children, aged between 22 months and three years, were in intensive care and two adults had also been injured, one critically.
Annecy public prosecutor Line Bonnet said the 31-year-old suspected attacker’s motives remained unknown but there was no evidence of a terrorist motivation.
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, second left, gestures as she addresses the media in Annecy, French Alps, Thursday, June 8, 2023. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP) (AP)
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said the man, a Syrian with long-standing refugee status in Sweden and no criminal or psychiatric record, has a child of a similar age to the victims.
“We are talking here about infants, very young infants who have been very seriously injured,” she said, at a press conference near the scene of the attack in Annecy, just over the border from Geneva in Switzerland and about 550 kilometres south-east of Paris.
“And I think that everyone who is a parent, all of us are terrifically shocked by this event.
“It is a terrible thing that’s happened.”
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