Two of the four children injured in the Annecy knife attack are still at risk of death, a French government spokesman said Friday before the French president arrived on the scene in eastern France.
“As far as I know, there are two more children who are at risk of death,” Olivier Veran told public radio France Info, specifying that these victims “have had surgical interventions.”
Recall that on Thursday, an attacker with a knife wounded six people, including four young children, at a playground in the city of Annecy in the French Alps, who were detained after the attack, the French Interior Ministry said.
The attacker, a 31-year-old Syrian Christian refugee, was arrested at the scene. At the time of the attack, the aggressor shouted: “In the name of Jesus Christ,” the report says. Le Figaro. The prosecutor of the French town assured at a press conference that there was no “terrorist motivation” at the heart of the attack.
The attacker has legal refugee status in France and is in possession of Swedish identity documents and a Swedish driver’s license, a police spokesman told Reuters.