(Reuters) The knife attack on toddlers in a French Alpine town, suspected to have been carried out by a Syrian refugee, has thrown a spotlight on President Emmanuel Macron’s struggles to find support for a new immigration bill in a fragmented parliament.
France was still in shock a day after four children — aged between 22 and 36 months — and two pensioners were stabbed in the tranquil lakeside town of Annecy.
The suspect in police custody is a 31-year-old Syrian national who was granted refugee status in Sweden 10 years ago and thanks to European free movement rules was legally in France where he had filed another asylum request.
French authorities rejected that request last week.
