Takeaway
The horror near Lake Annecy. A knife attack occurred in the center of the city of Haute-Savoie this Thursday, around 9:45 am. Several people were injured: four children and an adult would be affected, according to a latest very evolving assessment. The prognosis is life-threatening for two children and one adult. The children are about 3 years old. The prefecture of Haute-Savoie asks to avoid the sectors of the garden of Europe. In the aftermath, Emmanuel Macron denounced on Twitter an "attack of absolute cowardice".
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The alleged attacker was arrested after the intervention of the police. He would be treated on the spot. According to our information, a Syrian identity card was found on him. The man is an asylum seeker and unknown to all police files. He had applied for asylum at the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA) on 28 November 2022.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne is due to visit the site. On the spot, the mayor of Annecy, François Astorg, addressed his "thoughts to the victims and families". This tragedy caused great emotion in the National Assembly where a minute of silence was observed in the morning at the request of the president, Yaël Braun-Pivet.
What to remember also
- Last round for pension reform. The Liot group announced on Thursday to withdraw its bill repealing the postponement of the retirement age whose examination was scheduled in the National Assembly. The measure had been "gutted" because of the striking out of Article 1, which proposed to repeal retirement at age 64. "There is nothing left of our text," lamented Bertrand Pancher, president of the group.
- Abduction alert in the North. The kidnapping alert plan was triggered Wednesday night to find little Malek, 8 years old, whose trace was lost in Dunkirk (North). The father, Jamel, 40, suspected of murder, may have fled with her.
- Orange fog and unbreathable air in New York. Hundreds of fires spreading across Canada created a cloud of smoke that moved all the way to the United States, setting up an apocalyptic haze on the streets of New York City. The Statue of Liberty and skyscrapers in Manhattan have been shrouded in thick orange and brown fog since Wednesday.
- Thunderstorms expected on part of the France. The weather will be marked this Thursday by some thunderstorms on the reliefs of the East in the afternoon and a degradation on the Atlantic coast in the late afternoon, according to the forecasts of Météo France.
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