ANNECY: A man armed with a knife attacked a group of preschool children playing by a lake in the French Alps on Thursday (Jun 8), wounding four as well as an adult and sending shockwaves through the country. The suspect is a Syrian in his early 30s who was granted refugee status in Sweden in April, a polic
ANNECY: A man armed with a knife attacked a group of preschool children playing by a lake in the French Alps on Thursday , wounding four as well as an adult and sending shockwaves through the country.
"He wanted to attack everyone. I moved away and he lunged at an old man and woman and stabbed the old man," former professional footballer Anthony Le Tallec, who was running in the park, told the local Dauphine Libere newspaper. A police source said checks on the man, who was arrested at the scene, were ongoing, but he was unknown to French security services.
The motive and identity of the attacker are being investigated and the local prosecutor is expected to give further details at a press conference.
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