The knife attack Thursday morning in Annecy that left six wounded, including four young children, didn’t have a terror motive, the prosecutor of the southeastern French town said.
(Bloomberg) — The knife attack Thursday morning in Annecy that left six wounded, including four young children, didn’t have a terror motive, the prosecutor of the southeastern French town said.
Authorities are pursuing assassination attempt charges, prosecutor Line Bonnet-Mathis said during a press conference. The suspect was being held in police custody.
The man holds Syrian citizenship and has refugee status in Sweden, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said at the conference. He also requested asylum in France.
Borne and Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin both traveled to the town in the French Alps shortly after the attack.
President Emmanuel Macron called the attack an act of “absolute cowardice” on Twitter.
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