An individual attacked this Thursday morning around 9:45 a.m. in Haute-Savoie a group of children in a small playground. The balance sheet is six injured, including four children.
“Terrible“, A “act that cannot go unpunished“, “thoughts to the victims of the attack“… The political class reacts, this Thursday, after the knife attack in the morning in Annecy (Haute-Savoie). An individual attacked this Thursday morning around 9:45 am in Annecy (Haute-Savoie) a group of children in a small playground in the Pâquier sector, injuring six, including four children, indicates the prefecture of Haute-Savoie. The children are aged 22 months to 3 years, according to a police source. Among the victims, five are in emergency absolute and one in relative urgency.
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The individual was arrestedquickly” by the police who opened fire, according to a source familiar with the matter. The suspect, who was not injured by the shooting, aged 32, is able to be heard by the investigators. Arrested with a Syrian identity card, he is an asylum seeker and unknown to all files, according to a police source.
On Twitter, Emmanuel Macron denounced a “attack of absolute cowardice“.”Children and an adult are between life and death. The Nation is in shock. Our thoughts are with them as well as their families and the emergency services mobilized.“said the head of state. Elisabeth Borne and Gérald Darmanin immediately left on Thursday.
The members of the government have also expressed their emotion, denouncing this attack in very firm terms. “The most absolute horror struck our children in Annecy“, reacted on Twitter Eric Dupond-Moretti, the Minister of Justice. “Thank you to the police for their quick response. Justice is seized and the prosecutor of the Republic of Annecy is on the spot. I think first of all of the victims and their families., he wrote. “Once again, our children are the target of increasing violence in our society. I thank the police who arrested the attacker. This act cannot go unpunished.“, declares the Secretary of State to the Prime Minister, in charge of Children, Charlotte Caubel.
“To attack young children is to commit the unspeakable. I am thinking of the victims, their parents and their families. In Annecy, students from neighboring schools were immediately brought to safety thanks to the responsiveness of the educational teams“, indicates the Minister of National Education and Youth, Pap Ndiaye.
“It’s all of France that we bruise”
Far from the tumult of the debates on the pension reform, deputies and members of the government observed a minute of silence in the National Assembly at the invitation of the President of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet, speaking of a “very serious attack “. “It is with fear and horror that we learn of the aggression of young children in Annecy by an individual armed with a knife. My thoughts are with the victims and their loved ones.“, for her part, declared the president of the National Rally (RN) group in the National Assembly, Marine Le Pen. “Barbarism struck this morning in Annecy, during a knife attack targeting young children, perpetrated by what would be a Syrian asylum seeker migrant. When we attack children, it is innocence that we attack, and it is all of France that we bruise“, says the president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella.
Less consensual, Laure Lavalette, MP for Var and spokesperson for the National Rally, denounced this Thursday on franceinfo the “powerlessness of the government to protect our people and our children“after that stabbing.”Unfortunately, I fear that we will have to wait until 2027 and the victory of Marine Le Pen to have the political will“, she added.
“Attacking little ones!”
“How is it possible ? Attacking little ones! Hit them with a knife! Our heart is in pieces having to live it. To the children our painful affection. To the parents all our grieving sympathy“, launched the leader of La France insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, on Twitter.
Like him, the whole Nupes expressed their emotion. “I express my full support for the victims and the families of the victims of the knife attack in Annecy. Young children targeted, it is an unspeakable horror. Let’s hope that all the light is shed on this story“, says the national secretary of Europe Ecology-The Greens (EELV), Marine Tondelier. “No words can describe such horror“, according to the national secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF) and deputy Fabien Roussel.”Terrible attack in Annecy where children were attacked with a knife. How can we attack children?“, he writes again. He too addresses his “sincere thoughts” to “these children, to their families”.
“Words are powerless when children are attacked. Our solidarity, our thoughts, our support, the strongest, go to the families and loved ones“, declares for her part the Green MP Sandrine Rousseau. “All our thoughts for these children who are fighting for their survival and for their families“, also writes the First Secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure.