French President Emmanuel Macron described as “absolute cowardice” the attack with a knife occurred this Thursday in the city of Annecy that caused injuries to four children, two of them very serious, and an adult. “Absolute cowardice attack this morning in an Annecy park. Children and an adult between life and death. The nation is traumatized,” Macron said on Twitter.

“It is an attack that traumatizes us all”, affirmed for his part the Minister of Finance, Gabriel Attal, before the plenary session of the National Assembly, whose deputies stood for a minute of silence. The perpetrator of the attack, a 32-year-old Syrian refugee, was injured when he was stopped by officers of a motorcycle patrol that was in the vicinity.

The Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office indicated that it is studying the circumstances of the attack before deciding whether to take on the case. The attack occurred in Annecy, a mountain tourism town at the foot of the Alps, specifically in the Garden of Europe, a wide open area of ​​meadows and forests next to a lake used for rowing and other leisure activities. The area, to which numerous ambulances and police vehicles traveled, remains cordoned off, according to television images.