Five people including four children were injured yesterday in a knife attack in Annecy in France. Who is the assailant who committed this act?
The assailant, who was arrested, is of Syrian nationality, a 32 -year -old asylum seeker and unknown to all files, according to a police source.
The suspect, born in 1991, had recorded an asylum application in France in November 2022, in normal procedure. He was notified of the refusal of his asylum request in France on Sunday June 4.
In the meantime, however, he had obtained refugee status in Sweden on April 26. It was therefore regular from the point of view of European Union law.
Presenting himself as a “Christian of Syria”, he had left his native country in 2013, before, finally, marrying a Swedish with whom he had a 3 -year -old daughter, report, today the French media.
The assailant claimed his gesture “in the name of Jesus Christ” at the time of his act and wore a cross and a prayer book. On the attacks of the attack, which the JDD consulted, it can be heard twice, in English, the words “in the name of Jesus Christ”.
Since his departure from Sweden, he had hardly given new news to his ex-wife. “He was very fleeing,” describes this one. He called me four months ago, he lived in a church. But I don’t know much more. “She said.
