A knifeman who wounded six folks together with a three-year-old British lady in France has appeared in public for the primary time because the assault.

Abdelmasih Hanoun, a self-styled Syrian-Christian, was taken from a safe police station in Annecy to town’s Palais de Justice in a medical chair surrounded by officers.

The 31-year-old was set to seem earlier than a decide to be charged in reference to Thursday’s assaults.

An investigation source told the Mirror: “Hanoun left the commissariat soon after 10am [9am BST], with four officers carrying his chair.

“The chair is a medical one normally used by firemen to take injured people out of burning buildings.”

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Hanoun, who gave the impression to be barely acutely aware, was wounded by police following the assault, which noticed him stab 4 younger kids and two adults.

Video footage confirmed him saying the phrases "In the name of Jesus Christ" twice in English as he carried out the assault.

Among the injured was three-year-old British lady Ettie who was visting the country on holiday.

All the victims had been reported to be in a secure situation on Saturday morning, with Ettie capable of watch tv.

The different kids injured within the assault included two-year-old French cousins named Ennio and Alba and a 22-month-old Dutch boy known as Peter.

The adults who had been injured had been Manuel, aged 70, and 78-year-old Yusuf, who was additionally hit by a police bullet in error.

Hanoun, a failed asylum seeker dealing with deportation, was sleeping tough in Annecy earlier than the assault.

Line Bonnet-Mathis, the Annecy Prosecutor who's main the investigation, confirmed Hanoun "will appear before a judge on Saturday".

He is reported to have been "having tantrums" in custody and has thus far not offered any motive for the assaults.

Hanoun was refused asylum in France six days in the past and confronted being faraway from the nation.

There had been no quick efforts to deport him or to observe his actions.

Gérald Darmanin, France’s Interior Minister, stated this was a "troubling coincidence", including: "For reasons not well explained he had sought asylum in Switzerland, Italy and France."

Hanoun arrived in Sweden 10 years in the past, having served within the Syrian Army throughout the nation’s ongoing civil struggle.

He married a Swedish girl he had met in Turkey, and so they went on to have a daughter, now aged three, earlier than the couple separated round eight months in the past.

Hanoun was twice refused Swedish citizenship which can have motivated him to maneuver to France.