Afrigather French judges on Saturday handed preliminary prices of tried homicide to a man suspected of stabbing four young children and two adults in a French Alps park.
The suspect is a 31-year-old Syrian refugee with everlasting residency in Sweden. His identify was not launched.
Lead prosecutor, Line Bonnet-Mathis, mentioned the person was introduced to investigating judges within the lakeside city of Annecy on Saturday and handed the fees. He’s in custody pending additional investigation.
The prosecutor mentioned the victims are now not in life-threatening situation after Thursday’s assault.
The youngsters, between 22 months and three years outdated, stay hospitalized.
The six victims got here from 4 totally different nations: France, Britain, the Netherlands and Portugal.
Police detained the suspect within the lakeside park within the city of Annecy after bystanders — notably, a Catholic pilgrim who repeatedly swung on the attacker along with his backpack — sought to discourage him.
The pilgrim, Henri, a 24-year-old who’s on a nine-month strolling and hitchhiking tour of France’s cathedrals, mentioned he’d been setting off to a different abbey when the horror unfolded in entrance of him. The attacker slashed at him, however Henri held his floor and used a weighty backpack he was carrying to swing on the assailant.
Henri’s father mentioned his son “instructed me that the Syrian was incoherent, saying numerous unusual issues in numerous languages, invoking his father, his mom, all of the Gods.”
The motive behind Thursday’s savage assault, in and round a playground, remained unexplained. The prosecutor mentioned it didn’t seem like terrorism-related.
French President Emmanuel Macron visited the victims and their households, first responders and witnesses Friday.
Macron mentioned two younger French cousins who had been probably the most critically injured have stabilized, and medical doctors had been “very assured.”
The suspect’s profile fueled renewed criticism from far-right and conservative politicians about French migration insurance policies. However authorities famous that the suspect entered France legally, as a result of he has everlasting residency standing in Sweden. Sweden and France are each members of the E.U. and Europe’s border-free journey zone.
He utilized for asylum in France final 12 months and was refused a number of days earlier than the assault, on the grounds that he had already gained asylum in Sweden in 2013, the French inside minister mentioned.
