Suspect detained after four young children critically wounded in French Alps knife attack
French authorities are working to determine the motive behind a "savage" knife attack on infants who were playing in a park next to an idyllic lake in a French Alps town.
The head of the investigation into the stabbing said the four children, aged between 22 months and three years, were in intensive care and two adults had also been injured, one critically.
Annecy public prosecutor Line Bonnet said the 31-year-old suspected attacker's motives remained unknown but there was no evidence of a terrorist motivation.
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said the man, a Syrian with long-standing refugee status in Sweden and no criminal or psychiatric record, has a child of a similar age to the victims.
"We are talking here about infants, very young infants who have been v...
