After the emotion, comes the time for questions: could the tragedy of Annecy have been avoided? In the aftermath of the attack that left six wounded, including four children, the right is calling in any case to show greater "firmness" on the reception conditions in France. Present on the territory for eight months, the assailant, a 32-year-old Syrian refugee, had indeed filed an asylum application with the French authorities.
This had finally been refused, four days before the attack, since he already had a residence card in Sweden. Invited Thursday evening on TF1, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, himself acknowledged "a disturbing coincidence" between the passage to the act and the recent decision of the National Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (Ofpra).
'Failure'
"This individual should never have been in France, castigated the boss of the Republicans, Eric Ciotti. The refugee status he enjoyed in Sweden did not allow him to stay...
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