British girl and 22-month-old boy in 'stable' condition in French hospital after asylum seeker knife attack
Tributes of flowers and teddy bears were left at the scene of an attack on six victims in Annecy, France on Thursday.A three-year-old British girl and 22-month-old boy are in "stable" condition in hospital after being stabbed by a Syrian asylum seeker in France.
Abdalmasih H, 31, was caught in Annecy, southeastern France on Thursday after he attacked four young children in a playground, including a child in a pushchair, and two adults.Speaking to French media outlets in the aftermath of the attack, the knifeman’s former wife revealed he has a daughter aged three.
According to a minister, the attacker had been denied asylum in France just days before the attack, as he had already been granted asylum in Sweden 10 years ago – however he failed to receive Swedish citizenship twice. Eyewitnesses caught the moment the Syrian knife attacker in France was surrounded and captured by police after he wounded six people including a three-year-old British girl.
But he stopped, and instead ran to the pram, lunged twice at it, before running away for a few seconds. "Also aware that one of the people, one of the children injured, was a British national. We have already deployed British consular officials who are travelling to the area to make themselves available to support the family.Prosecutor Line Bonnet-Mathis said one child aged three and a 22-month-old child were among the injured. Besides the British child, there is a Dutch national among the victims.
Le Parisien said he arrived in France in November and would have declared himself a Christian. He had a cross on him at his arrest.
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