Members of the public on Friday wrote messages and laid floral tributes at the scene of the incident, Reuters reported.

President Emmanuel Macron (center) and his wife Brigitte Macron (second left) arrive at a hospital in Grenoble on Friday to visit the victims the stabbing incident. “Our eyes met and I could feel that this was a guy who was not in a right state, that something evil was in him,” Henri added. Videos filmed by bystanders show Henri confronting the perpetrator and swinging his bag to fight him off. “It was just impossible to leave defenseless people to be attacked like that by someone who seemed to me effectively to be a maniac,” he said. Or how every Frenchmen would act,” the young man told BFMTV on Friday, adding that he “did not even think.” “I tried to act as every Frenchman should act.

He identified himself only as Henri to French media. The backpacker who attempted to stop the knife attack has been dubbed the “backpack hero” locally. The suspect is being held in custody at a police station in Annecy, according to BFMTV. Two young children are still in intensive care following Thursday’s knife attack in southeast France, when screams rippled through a playground in the small Alpine town during the brutal assault.Ī 31-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker was detained on suspicion of carrying out the attack, French media and CNN affiliate BFMTV reported Thursday. A 24-year-old man has been hailed as a hero for chasing a man suspected of launching a knife rampage in Annecy, which left six people injured including four toddlers.

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