The perpetrator in France behaved suspiciously before the attack – news Urix – Foreign news and documentaries

The man who attacked several children with a knife in a park in Annecy in southeastern France on Thursday morning did not have a terrorist motive, according to a French public prosecutor. The motive for the knife attack is not known. According to witnesses, he ran around and attacked random people in the park. SCENE: Police are at the scene where the man attacked several children. Photo: Florent Pecchio / AP The man is elderly in his early 30s. He has been granted asylum in Sweden, Italy and Switzerland but also applied for asylum in France. According to the French TV channel BFM, he had his French asylum application rejected four days before the attack. He is not previously known to French intelligence. Father of three The perpetrator is a father of three. His ex-wife is, like him, a Syrian refugee but now has Swedish citizenship. The couple divorced last year. The man arrived in Annecy in November 2022 and stayed legally in the country as he had asylum in Sweden. ASYLUM SEEKER: The perpetrator applied for asylum in France. He had no permanent residence. For the past few weeks he had been sleeping in a stairwell in an apartment block. – He went to bed early, around 6-7pm, says Damien, 39, a resident of the block. – He groomed himself, brushed his teeth and cut his nails. When I went to work in the morning, he wasn’t there. I thought he had gone to work. Sat every day on a bench in the park Witnesses tell the French newspaper Le Dauphiné Libéréat that they saw the perpetrator sitting on a bench in the park where the attack happened, every day for the past two months. He was alone and behaving strangely, the witnesses claim. They say that he often sang to himself and seemed disheveled. – We wondered if he didn’t take medication or dope himself. He seemed isolated and disturbed, witnesses told BFM TV. French prosecutors confirm that the perpetrator was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol when the knife attack occurred. President Emmanuel Macron on a hospital visit Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron visited the hospital in Grenoble earlier today where three of the four children are admitted. The president then went on to Annecy to visit the one man who was badly injured. He was exposed to several stab wounds and was hit by a shot fired by the police. President Macron said on Thursday that the attack had left the nation in shock, calling it “cowardly”. PRESIDENT MACRON: Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron visited victims in hospital this afternoon. Photo: Reuters



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