French MPs stand a minute of silence after a knife attack in Annecy, during a session in Paris, on June 8, 2023. (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images) PARIS - An attacker with a knife stabbed several young children and at least one adult, leaving some with life-threatening injuries, in a bucolic lakeside park in a town in the French Alps on Thursday before he was arrested, authorities said.French President Emmanuel Macron said "children and an adult are between life and death." He described the assault in the Alpine town of Annecy as an "attack of absolute cowardice.""The nation is in shock," he tweeted.Police detained the attacker, said Interior Minster Gerald Darmanin.
Police said the attacker was a man in his thirties.Witnesses said some of the children appeared very young. A man who spoke to broadcaster BFMTV said he saw first-aiders working on "little bodies, 3 or 4 years old, perhaps."A local lawmaker, Antoine Armand, said the children were attacked on a playground.