(ANSA) - ROME, JUNE 09 - The French justice has extended the pre-trial detention of Abdalmasih Hanoun, the Syrian man who wounded six people with a knife yesterday, including four small children, in Annecy: the city's prosecutor, Line Bonnet Mathis, announced it on Twitter.
According to a source close to the investigation, his condition was deemed "compatible with police custody" after his psychiatric evaluation.
Two of the 4 children injured in the knife attack yesterday in Annecy, in the south-east of France, are still in serious condition, government spokesman Olivier Véran announced this morning shortly before President EmmanuelMacron's departure for the Haute-Savoie city French. "As far as I know," Véran told France Info, "there would still be two children considered to be in serious condition, with a reserved prognosis."
All four "have been operated on and are currently undetected. Their state of health is stationary," said the Prime Minister French, Elisabeth Borne, when asked about the conditions of the injured during a visit to Salon-de-Provence, in the Marseille region (south of the country).
President French Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte went to Grenoble, where 3 of the four children are hospitalized. (ANSA).
Custody of the perpetrator of the attack in Annecy extended
2023-06-09T11:22:09.254Z
Highlights: Justice has French extended the pre-trial detention of Abdalmasih Hanoun, the Syrian man who wounded six people, including four small children, with a knife yesterday in Annecy. Two of the 4 children injured in the knife attack are still in serious condition, government spokesman Olivier Véran announced this morning. President French Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte went to Grenoble, where 3 of the four children are hospitalized. All four "have been operated on and are currently undetected," said the Prime Minister French.
Justice has French extended the pre-trial detention of Abdalmasih Hanoun, the Syrian man who wounded six people, including four small children, with a knife yesterday in Annecy, the city's prosecutor announced on Twitter,... (ANSA)