He also had 480 euros in cash with him and a Swedish driver’s license, and had been sleeping in the common area of an Annecy apartment building. The suspected attacker wore a cross and carried two Christian images with him at the time of the attack, the prosecutor said. She said that the motive remained unclear, but it didn’t appear to be terrorism-related. The suspect refused to talk to investigators, and was examined by a psychiatrist and other doctors who deemed him fit to face charges, the prosecutor said. He is in custody pending further investigation. The suspected attacker, whose name was not released, was presented to investigating judges in Annecy on Saturday and given charges of attempted murder and armed resistance, Bonnet-Mathis said.
Police detained the suspect in the park in the town of Annecy after bystanders - notably, a Catholic pilgrim who repeatedly swung at the attacker with his backpack - sought to deter him. Witnesses told investigators that the suspect mentioned his daughter, his wife and Jesus Christ during the attack Thursday targeting a playground in the lakeside town of Annecy.
The suspect, a 31-year-old Syrian refugee with permanent Swedish residency, has a 3-year-old daughter living in Sweden, regional prosecutor Line Bonnet-Mathis told reporters Saturday. The children who were stabbed, between 22 months and 3 years old, were in hospitals in France and Switzerland. The victims came from multiple countries, and the impact of the unusually savage and incomprehensible attack Thursday reverberated across France and beyond. PARIS (AP) - Four young children stabbed in a playground in the French Alps are no longer in life-threatening condition but remain hospitalized, the regional prosecutor said Saturday, as the suspected attacker was handed preliminary charges of attempted murder.
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