The suspect in the knife attack on six people, including four very young children, in a city park on Thursday, has been referred, franceinfo learned on Saturday June 10. His police custody has ended and he will be brought before a judge. The Annecy prosecutor, Line Bonnet-Mathis, is due to hold a press conference early in the afternoon devoted to the legal proceedings concerning the suspect. Follow our live.
“No place” for the ultra-right in the city, says the president of Greater Annecy. At the microphone of franceinfo, Frédérique Lardet reacted after an ultra-right gathering near the place of the knife attack. At the first gathering after the attack, Thursday evening“barely fifty people” were present, while“they [les organisateurs] announced 300, 400 people”. This event was banned by the prefecture of Haute-Savoie.
The suspect “is clearly not someone radicalized”, according to the Minister of the Interior. “When you are used to Islamist attacks, you necessarily have a bias”, acknowledged Gérald Darmanin, Friday, after being questioned about the profile of the arrested man. The Minister of the Interior explained, on the set of BFMTV, that the alleged perpetrator was not “obviously not someone radicalized”. Important information, underlined the tenant of Place Beauvau, since it can imply that there is “no coordination with other attacks”.
A tribute to the victims organized on Sunday. The town hall, led by environmentalist François Astorg, announced in a press release on Friday that a white march would be organized on Sunday, in tribute to the six injured. The rally will begin at 11 a.m. at Parc du Pâquier, where the facts took place.
The news of the injured children “is positive”. Emmanuel Macron surrendered at the bedside of the victims, first at the Grenoble University Hospital (Isère), then at the Annecy hospital. The President of the Republic assured that the news of the injured children was “positive”. “Everything that was said to me is going in the right direction”, he added.