2023-06-11 08:36:00
“UA strong sign of union and solidarity”: hundreds of people paid tribute to the victims of the knife attack on Sunday in Annecy, which left six injured on Thursday, including four very young children now out of danger.
Under a radiant sun, the Pâquier, a vast promenade located on the shores of the city’s lake, was around 11 a.m. crowded for this “citizen rally” organized by the City, noted an AFP journalist. It was in his children’s park that the drama took place on Thursday.
The public present, with serious faces, was very diverse: families, young people or older people. Many had laid flowers on the playground, which added to dozens of bouquets.
“Alba, Ennio, Ettie, Peter, a little thought”, says a message to the little victims written in a heart on a bench in the kindergarten.
“It is a strong sign of union and solidarity to find us all together,” said the ecologist mayor of Annecy, François Astorg. The song “Parlez moi d’amour” by Juliette Gréco was played in the background.
“We are together. We will face together,” added the city councilor, warmly applauded like the rescuers present on Thursday. The crowd then sang the “Marseillaise”.
The assailant, a Syrian refugee who recently left his host country, Sweden, after years of family life, was indicted for “attempted murder” and placed in pre-trial detention on Saturday but remained silent on the charges. reasons for his action.
He was placed in solitary confinement at the Aiton prison center in Savoie, a source familiar with the matter told AFP.
The psychiatrist who examined Abdalmasih H. “noted the absence of frank delusional elements”, but it is still too early to comment on a possible “psychiatric pathology”, declared the prosecutor of Annecy Line Bonnet during a press conference on Saturday.
The vital prognosis of the six injured, most of them hospitalized in absolute emergency after the attack, is no longer engaged, the prosecutor also announced on Saturday.
A 2-year-old boy, hit in the stomach and chest, is still being treated in Grenoble, as is a little girl of the same age, treated for “three chest wounds”. Hit by a stab wound, a 3-year-old British tourist will be able to leave Grenoble hospital “in the coming days”. Finally, a 22-month-old Dutch girl is still being treated in Geneva for three stab wounds, according to the magistrate.
A 73-year-old Portuguese walker, stabbed three times and then hit by police fire during the arrest, “could be heard by investigators”. More slightly injured, the other adult, a 78-year-old Frenchman, had quickly returned home.
ordinary heroes
During Sunday’s rally, the mayor of Annecy François Astorg paid tribute to all those who, during the attack, “acted with courage and professionalism”.
Among these ordinary heroes, two municipal agents tried to stop the attacker with a shovel, a young pedal boat rental company and a mathematics teacher on an outing with students tried to intervene, a childminder rushed To rescue two injured children, a young Catholic tourist chased the attacker…
President Macron had already expressed his “gratitude” and “pride” to them on Friday during an official ceremony organized at the Haute-Savoie prefecture. He had particularly lingered with Henri, the young Catholic pilgrim, celebrated on social networks as “the hero with a backpack”.
The hashtag #MerciHenri has become an antiphon on far-right accounts, very focused, too, by the hashtag #francocide, a term notably used by Eric Zemmour. On the evening of the attack, a few dozen ultra-right activists gathered in the park and then in the streets of Annecy chanting “Blue, white, red, France to the French”.
Namely targeted by hate messages, the mayor of Annecy filed a complaint against X on Saturday morning for “intimidation” and “defamation”, we learned from his services.
After fleeing his country at war, Abdalmasih H. had obtained a permanent residence permit in Sweden at the end of 2013, where he had obtained asylum, which gave him refugee status.
“No terrorist motivation appears at this stage”, according to the prosecutor. Witnesses only heard him “recall his wife and daughter and pronounce the name of Jesus Christ” during the attack.
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11/06/2023 18:44:31 – Annecy (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
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