Paris (EFE).- Five people were injured, including four small children, by an attack with a knife in a park in the French city of Annecy (southeast), the authorities announced.
The perpetrator of the attack is an asylum seeker of Syrian nationality, with no police record, he has been arrested and is also injured, according to local media.
They add that two of the four injured children (all under three years old) are in very serious condition. An ambulance helicopter was necessary for their immediate evacuation.
“The individual has been arrested thanks to the very rapid intervention of law enforcement,” Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Twitter.
A nearby man who approached when he heard the screams described the perpetrator as a 45-year-old man who said nothing as he carried out the attack.
The attack occurred around 0745 GMT in Annecy, a mountain tourism town at the foot of the Alps, specifically in the Garden of Europe, a wide open area of meadows and forests with a lake used for rowing and other activities. of leisure.