France attack: Shocking moment police take down Annecy attacker

France attack: Shocking moment police take down Annecy attacker. Distressing video shows the attacker running into the small playground and repeatedly stabbing a toddler in his pram while his screaming mother tries to protect him from the attack. Further dramatic footage shows the attacker, a Syrian refugee who arrived in France last year, later being pinned to the ground by armed police officers at the park after being chased away from the playground by locals. Horrified witnesses say mothers ran past them screaming ’run, run’ in the aftermath of the frenzied attack, which President Emmanuel Macron has condemned as ’absolute cowardice’. Four children aged around three - reportedly including a three-year-old British girl - and an adult were seriously injured in the attack. Two of the young victims and the adult are now in a life-threatening condition at a nearby hospital. Witnesses said the knifeman had begun attacking the preschool children while they were playing
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