10.06.2023
A French local prosecutor said that it was decided to place the Syrian suspect in a knife attack that injured four children and two pensioners in the town of Annecy, France, under detention. He was charged with attempted murder. The man’s motives are still unknown.
The Syrian refugee who stabbed six people, including four children, in a park in the city of Annecy in the French Alps, was charged with attempted murder, as announced on Saturday (June 10, 2023) by the Public Prosecutor, who indicated that the injured children were no longer in danger. The man’s motives are still unknown.
Annecy Prosecutor Lynn Bonnet Mathis announced during a press conference that Abdel-Masih H. He “refused to speak” during his 48-hour detention pending investigation, as well as before the two investigative judges in charge of the file. After two reports from psychiatric experts, Abdel-Masih’s case was deemed “capable of police custody.” “But it is too early to comment on the presence or absence of mental illness at this stage,” she explained.
Of the six people injured in the attack, four children, aged between 22 and 36 months, were hospitalized in initially serious condition. One adult was seriously injured, while another sustained minor injuries. “Their condition is no longer in danger,” Bonnet Mathis added. Since his arrest, the 31-year-old attacker has not given any explanation for his attack and “sought to obstruct his detention and fell to the ground.” Sources close to the investigation told AFP he was “completely silent”.
The plaintiff added that witnesses told investigators that they heard the suspect calling “his wife and daughter” and shouting “Christ”. Upon his arrest, the police found a folding knife, two pictures of Christianity and a cross, as well as money and a Swedish driver’s license.
“Insanity is a very easy excuse,” Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Friday. “It is important to know that he is being questioned and is of sound mind.” He said it was “possible that he had a motive that investigators will try to understand”. A source close to the investigation stated, “Investigations are continuing to reveal his personality, his career, and what he has been doing since his arrival in France.”
As soon as the news spread attack On Thursday, opposition officials from the right and the far right condemned “mass immigration,” and some spoke of “radical Islam” and “terrorism,” before it was revealed that the attacker was Christian and acted “without a clear terrorist motive,” according to the Public Prosecution Office.
Among the four injured children, whose ages ranged between 22 and 36 months, was a Dutch girl who was taken to hospital in Geneva “and her life is no longer in danger,” according to the Dutch foreign minister.
The day following the attack, the French President and his wife, Brigitte, visited the victims on Friday, and Macron confirmed that there was “positive news” regarding their condition.
Then head Macron And his wife to Annecy hospital and the police department to pay tribute to all those who offered “help and support” during the incident that rocked the city on Thursday. The French President declared that “the abuse of children is the most brutal act.” “There are things that are totally unacceptable. The violence behind these actions is incomprehensible. We must not get used to it,” he added.
The attack, which took place in a public place and in broad daylight, deeply shocked the normally quiet city of Annecy. On Friday hundreds of people walked in front of the small public park where the attack took place to pray and lay bouquets of flowers.
Among those attending Mass was Henry, a young Catholic who became famous within hours for trying to intervene during the attack using his backpack. “I don’t like naming a hero at all,” he said before the mass. “I think I acted as every Frenchman might and should have acted.”
ZAB/KHS (AFP, Archyde.com)
France following the assassination of a priest – shock, mourning and determination to stand together
The Church of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray will remain present in all the minds of the French, and indeed in the minds of all humanity, following an 86-year-old priest was brutally assassinated by two terrorists who knelt and slaughtered him in front of the church altar while he was performing Mass. The operation adopted by ISIS documents a new chapter of the brutality of this terrorist organization, which does not hesitate even to violate the sanctity and sanctity of places of worship.
France following the assassination of a priest – shock, mourning and determination to stand together
The heinous attack on the church in the city of Rouen in the province of Normandy, northern France, came only 12 days following the bloody Nice operation, which claimed the lives of 84 people. The new operation – which exacerbates the wounds of France, which has been affected by terrorism more than any other country in Western Europe in recent years – has sparked widespread international condemnation and condemnation.
France following the assassination of a priest – shock, mourning and determination to stand together
French President Francois Hollande, who none of his predecessors witnessed a dark period in which terrorist operations were as numerous as the ones France is witnessing now, stressed the continuation of the war once morest terrorism. “We are facing the Islamic State, which has declared war on us,” he said. “We must wage this war by all means, while respecting the rights that make us democratic.” He stressed the need to unify the ranks of all French people of all religious affiliations, saying: “What the terrorists want is to divide us.”
France following the assassination of a priest – shock, mourning and determination to stand together
German Chancellor Anguilla Merkel expressed in a letter to the French President her shock at the heinous killing of the elderly priest during his mass. She expressed her deep sorrow and regret that terrorism strikes France once more, stressing the need to respond to it by unifying ranks and standing side by side.
France following the assassination of a priest – shock, mourning and determination to stand together
Despite his extreme shock, Dominique Lebrun, Archbishop of the city of Rouen to which the Church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray belongs, the scene of the terrorist operation that killed Priest Jacques Hamel, stressed that Christianity is a religion of tolerance and does not respond to the same, so that he said: “The Catholic Church You do not know any other weapon than prayer and brotherhood among people. Indeed, the Catholic churches of France decided to respond to terrorism with fasting and prayer.
France following the assassination of a priest – shock, mourning and determination to stand together
Pope Francis is still in shock following receiving the news of the brutal assassination of one of his priests. In a related context, the Vatican spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, said that while the Pope feels pain because of this senseless violence, he condemns all forms of hatred and prays for the injured. Lombardi added: “We are particularly shocked by the horrific violence that occurred in a church, in a sacred place where the love of God is proclaimed, with the brutal murder of a priest.”
France following the assassination of a priest – shock, mourning and determination to stand together
The head of the German Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, considered that the assassination of Priest Jacques Hamel in the church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray was seeking to sow hatred, “and this is what we will prevent,” as he put it. He also stressed the need to do everything possible so that the terrorist operation does not generate a new cycle of violence.
France following the assassination of a priest – shock, mourning and determination to stand together
The German Catholic Bishops Conference affirmed that closing churches is not a solution to prevent terrorist operations from occurring, such as those that affected the Church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, stressing the need to keep the doors open in the faces of believers, visitors, and everyone who goes to the houses of God. The conference stressed the need to prevent fear from taking the upper hand.
France following the assassination of a priest – shock, mourning and determination to stand together
French Prime Minister Emmanuel Valls, who described the terrorist attack on Priest Jacques Hamel in the Church of Saint-Etienne Rovere as a “brutal” act, expressing that it was a blow to all Catholics and all of France. However, he stressed the need not to differentiate between the various segments of French society with their various ethnic and religious affiliations, as he said via Twitter, “We will stand together.”
France following the assassination of a priest – shock, mourning and determination to stand together
The terrorist operation adopted by the “Islamic State” in response to France’s participation in the international military coalition once morest it, was carried out by two people whom it considered to be its soldiers. It seems that they believed that they did this in the name of Islam. But they, like others who preceded them, abuse him day following day, according to the evidence of Bou Bakr, the imam of the Great Mosque of Paris. “This act has nothing to do with Islam,” he said, adding that “it is an act that all Muslims in France condemn and reject.”
