The knifeman accused of stabbing 4 youngsters and two adults in a tranquil French alpine city had been denied asylum within the nation only a few days earlier than he launched the mindless assault, a minister has claimed. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin mentioned the suspect had tried to assert asylum in France, but it surely was refused on Sunday as a result of he had been granted asylum in Sweden 10 years in the past.

Mr Darmanin mentioned the suspect entered France legally, including: "For some reasons we don't really understand, he applied for asylum in Switzerland, in Italy and in France, which he didn't need to do as he already had asylum in Sweden for the past 10 years."  

The Swedish Migration Agency confirmed the suspect was granted everlasting residency in 2013. 

While the company did not establish the person, it mentioned the suspect sought Swedish citizenship in 2017 and 2018, each denied, and utilized once more in August final 12 months.

French police mentioned the person arrested following the assault at a lakeside park in Annecy is a 31-year-old Syrian.  

In the fast aftermath of the assault, native media reported one aged man and 6 youngsters had been stabbed, with no less than two children left in essential situation.

Annecy Mayor Francois Astorg instructed French media on Thursday night the youngsters had been "stable" and "out of the operating room". 

But the Telegraph reported a three-year-old British woman was preventing for her life in a hospital in Grenoble, a metropolis roughly an hour and a half away from Annecy. 

Among the opposite youngsters victims of the assault had been a 22-month-old little one, believed to be both Dutch or German, a two-year-old boy and his three-year-old cousin from France.

Among the grownup casualties, one was critically injured, native prosecutor Line Bonnet-Mathis mentioned, each by a knife wound and by a bullet wound shot by a police officer making an attempt to detain the attacker.  

Ms Bonnet-Mathis instructed a press convention on Thursday afternoon the attacker's motives stay unclear, however don't seem like associated to terrorism.

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