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The man who last Thursday stabbed four children and two adults in a park in the city of Annecya Syrian who had refugee status in Sweden and had been in France as homeless, he has been charged today, but not for terrorist offences, and imprisoned.
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The prosecutor of AnnecyLise Bonnet, who announced her indictment at a press conference, specified that there is no longer fear for anyone’s life of the six victims of the attack, but both the four children (who are between three years and 22 months) and one of the adults are still hospitalized.
Two of the children (one born in February 2021 and one born in August 2020) are French. In addition, there is also a little British born in March 2020 who was in Annecy with her family on vacation, as well as another Dutch woman who, after the attackShe was rushed to an emergency hospital.
As for the two adults, one has already been discharged and the second, who in addition to the stab wounds of the assailant was unintentionally shot by the policeis still hospitalized but his condition has allowed him to give a statement.
The prosecutor pointed out that the attacker -identified as AbdelmasihH.-, who is the sole author, has refused to answer police interrogations during the 48 hours that he has remained under arrest at the police station in this city of Los french alps before being presented to the investigating judges.
A psychiatrist who had examined him during his arrest had declared it fit for questioningand did not perceive delusional elements in him.
The magistrates have charged him with the crimes of rebellion with a weapon and, above all, for attempted murdera crime for which he could be sentenced up to life in prison.
Bonnet insisted that in the investigations that have been done so far “No terrorist motivation appears.” According to witnesses to the assault who have been questioned by the police, it appears that during the stabbing he alluded to his wife, his daughter and Jesus Christ.
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When he was arrested by five police officers, just a few minutes after the attack on the children and just 300 meters from the scene of the events in the same park, which is located on the shores of Lake Annecyamong his possessions was found, in addition to the dagger he used for the attack, a crucifixtwo Christian images, a Swedish driving license and 440 euros in cash.
He is 31 years old and both his wife and his three-year-old daughter live in Swedenwhere he obtained refugee status in 2013. In May 2022, he left Sweden and was in Italy and in Swiss before landing in France, where he has been living without a fixed address since October of last year.
Upon arrival, he applied for refugee status in France, but the Administration responded with a refusal on the 4th precisely because he already had that status recognized in Sweden.
A statute that allowed him to circulate through the Schengen area, although not to settle permanently in a country other than the one that had given him refugee status.
This issue has fueled a controversy in France created by some leaders of the right and extreme right, who have taken the opportunity to denounce the immigration policy, in their opinion too lax, and to criticize the European rules, particularly those that allow the free movement of refugees.
According to the French press, Abdelmasih H. was mobilized by the Army of his country when the war civil in 2011 and decided to defect.
He first went through Turkey, where he met what would later become his wife (also Syrian, later nationalized Swedish) with whom he went to Sweden where his son was born.
The mother of the attacker, who lives in USAhas stated in the French press that his son suffered from a “serious depression” due to the successive rejections he had received of his applications to obtain Swedish nationality.
Source: Elcomercio
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