PARIS—An attacker with a knife stabbed several very young children and at least one adult, leaving some with life-threatening injuries, in a 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 said in a tweet.
Police detained the attacker, said Interior Minster Gerald Darmanin. National police said the attacker was a man in his thirties.
Local police said the four child victims were all aged under 5….