(AFP) The Syrian refugee detained in the stabbing of six people, including four young children, in the French Alpine town of Annecy has been charged with “attempted murder,” a prosecutor said Saturday.
The suspect, named as Abdalmasih H., was taken into custody after going on a stabbing rampage on Thursday at a playground in the Alpine town of Annecy, a normally idyllic lakeside spot popular with tourists.
The chilling attack stunned France, which has suffered a series of attacks in the past decade, most of them by Islamic extremists.
The motivation of the playground attack remains unclear.
Abdalmasih H. “did not wish to speak” during his 48 hours in police custody nor before the magistrates leading the investigation, public prosecutor Line Bonnet-Mathis told a press conference.
