Six people were injured in the stabbing attack on Thursday June 8 in Annecy, including four children aged 22 months to 3 years, as well as two adults. The condition of the children “is stable”, said Elisabeth Borne this Friday.
The emotion is still palpable in Annecy (Haute-Savoie) this Friday, June 9, after the knife attack perpetrated the day before in the morning. A 31-year-old man of Syrian nationality attacked young children who were playing in a playground located in the Esplanade du Pâquier, a usually quiet place bordering Lake Annecy. A total of four children aged 22 months to 3 years were injured, as well as two adults, including a 78-year-old.
Among the four injured children, one of them is 22 months old, two are 2 years old and one is 3 years old, said the prosecutor of the Republic of Annecy, Line Bonnet-Mathis. The two injured 2-year-old children are cousins. The 3-year-old is of British nationality, and was visiting France with his family, as was the 22-month-old, of Dutch nationality. Information reported by RTL. The prosecutor also indicated that one of these children was transferred to the University Hospitals of Geneva, in Switzerland. The other three are at the Grenoble University Hospital, where Emmanuel Macron arrived with his wife this Friday morning, as TF1 Info reports, to support the victims and their families upset by the tragedy.
From the Bouches-du-Rhône where she is traveling this Friday, the Prime Minister indicated that the state of health of the four injured children “is stable”. “They were all able to be operated on, they are under permanent medical supervision,” she said, reports TF1 Info. Earlier in the morning, government spokesman Olivier Véran told franceinfo: “From what I know, there would be two more children who would be considered in absolute urgency, in vital emergency.”
Regarding the two injured adults, the first, whose age is unknown, was only slightly injured with a knife as he tried to intercept the assailant, according to Le Parisien. The prefect of Haute-Savoie, Yves Le Breton, told France Bleu this Friday morning that he “was able to go home” Thursday evening. The second adult, aged 78, is more seriously affected. He too was stabbed by the suspect, but also shot when the police fired to arrest the assailant. He is still being cared for at the Annecy University Hospital, said the prefect of Haute-Savoie.
