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In a Viral disturbing video seen online, a knife-wielding man stabbed four children and two adults at a park and a playground in southeastern France on Thursday, in an attack that horrified the country which President Emmanuel Macron called “absolutely cowardly.”
According to New York Times, the authorities said that a suspect, a Syrian asylum seeker who arrived in France last fall, had been arrested in the attack, which took place in Annecy, a city of about 130,000 people in the French Alps. Most of the wounded were hospitalized with critical injuries.
The heartbreaking incident was not being treated as a terrorist incident so far, the authorities said.
The brazen stabbing of very young children — ages 22 months to 3 years — shattered a peaceful morning in one of Annecy’s bucolic lakeside parks, and quickly sparked outrage across the country, where past attacks have left deep scars. It also set off political recriminations over immigration.
“The nation is in shock,” Mr. Macron said on Twitter.
Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, who hurried to Annecy after the stabbings, said the victims had been “savagely attacked.”
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