After the knife attack in Annecy, which left six injured, including four very young children, “wanting to draw general lessons when the investigation has just started is not necessarily the right method”assured Elisabeth Borne on Sunday June 11 during the program “Sunday in politics” on France 3. Several voices, on the right and on the far right, criticized European migration policy after the attack, whose suspect is a Syrian refugee from Sweden. Follow our live.
The mayor of Annecy paid tribute to the victims. “Annecy is a family, and when you touch the members of a family, all the others are affected”insisted François Astorg on Sunday, during the citizen rally at the place of the attack. “Annecy has just experienced a tragedy that has affected our city, the country and the whole world”insisted the city councilor, recalling that some of the victims are of British, Dutch and Portuguese nationality.
The suspect placed in solitary confinement at the Aiton remand center (Savoie). The man has been indicted for “attempted murder” and “rebellion with a weapon”, Annecy prosecutor Line Bonnet-Mathis announced on Saturday. He “did not wish to speak”neither during his 48-hour police custody, which ended Saturday morning, nor before the two investigating judges in charge of the investigation, said the prosecutor at a press conference.
The suspect’s motives remain unclear. Investigations are continuing for “understand his motivations”, underlined Saturday the general commissioner at the direction of judicial police South-East, Damien Delaby, by specifying that the business had mobilized more than a hundred investigators. The psychiatrist who examined the suspect “has noted the absence of frank delusional elements”but it is still too early to comment on a possible “psychiatric pathology”insisted the prosecutor.
The vital prognosis of the victims “is no longer engaged”. Four children (two French, one British and one Dutch) are still hospitalized, the prosecutor said on Saturday. They are 1 to 3 years old.