Four difficult children to stab in France

In a knife attack in a city park, five people were injured, including four small children who are in a very serious condition. Annecy French.

The perpetrator of the attack is an asylum seeker of Syrian nationality, without a police record, who was arrested and also injured.

In recent years France It was the scene of at least eight other knife attacks with similar characteristics. The most severe cost the lives of three people who were stabbed by a man in Basilica of Notre Dame in Paris October 29, 2020

In the latest attack, a nurse died after being stabbed to death in a hospital in the French city of Reims on May 22, 2023.

List of knife attacks he suffered France in recent years:

– August 5, 2017: A man armed with a knife tries to break into the Eiffel Tower shouting “Allah is the greatest”. The attacker, born in Mauritania, admitted to the police that his plan was to attack a soldier and that he was in contact with the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS).

– October 1, 2017: Amed H., holder of a Tunisian passport, born in 1997, kills two people with a knife at the main railway station in Marseille (France), and is killed by soldiers attached to the anti-terrorist unit. IS takes responsibility.

– January 3, 2020: A man kills a person with a knife in the town of Villejuif, south of Paris, shouting “Ala es Grande”.

– April 4, 2020: Two people were killed and five were injured in a knife attack by a Sudanese refugee in Romans sur Isère (southeastern France).

– September 25, 2020: Four people were injured with a knife, two of them seriously, in an attack carried out by a Pakistani man next to the former headquarters of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris and planned as a new attack on that publication.

– October 29, 2020: A man stabbed to death three people in the Notre Dame de Nice basilica who shouted “Allah is great” before police wounded and detained them. On the same day, the police shot dead a man who was threatening passers-by on the street with a gun in Avignon.

– April 23, 2021: A police officer was stabbed to death at a police station in Rambouillet, 50 kilometers southwest of Paris, by a Tunisian man who also died from shots fired by officers, in an act that French prosecutors were investigating as terrorism.

– May 23, 2023: A nurse died a day after she was stabbed by an unbalanced man at the university hospital in the French city of Reims, where a secretary from the center was also seriously injured.