Paris (EFE).- The French president, Emmanuel Macron, travels this Friday to Annecy, accompanied by his wife, Brigitte, to ask about the victims of the stabbing yesterday of four young children and two adults by a Syrian refugee, an It has generated a political controversy over border control.
“It is not a displacement to generate controversy”, stressed this morning the government spokesman, Olivier Véran, who in an interview on the France Info radio station pointed out that Macron goes to Annecy to see the victims or their families, as well as the agents and the emergency services that intervened.
Véran indicated that two of the four children attacked, who are between 22 months and three years old, are still “in vital urgency”, and insisted that “nothing can justify or explain” the attack, which occurred in the morning in a park next to to Lake Annecy, a resort town in the French Alps.
The perpetrator of the stabbing, Abdelmasih H., 31, was subdued by the police and is in custody. This morning he will undergo a psychiatric examination.