The state of health of the six victims hospitalized after the Annecy attack, two adults and four children aged 22 months to 3 years, has stabilized, assured Emmanuel Macron this Friday.
[Mis à jour le 9 juin à 19h27] After the horror of the knife attack perpetrated on Thursday June 8 in Annecy (Haute-Savoie), all eyes are on the hospitals of Grenoble and Geneva in Switzerland, where the six injured, including four children, have been hospitalized since THURSDAY. Seriously injured by stab wounds, the news concerning their state of health was positive this Friday the day after the tragedy. Emmanuel Macron, who went to Grenoble hospital in the early afternoon, reported “positive” news.
“Everything that was told to me is going in the right direction,” said the President of the Republic, adding that the three children hospitalized in Isère were “stabilized”. He also gave news of the British child who is now ‘awake’. “She watches TV, and it’s a bad memory already,” he said. Same development for the little Dutch girl, who is (treated) in Geneva and who “is doing better. These four children aged 22 months to 3 years were injured Thursday morning, when a 31-year-old man of Syrian nationality got away is taken from them with a knife while they were playing in a playground located in the Esplanade du Pâquier, a usually calm place which borders Lake Annecy.
Among the four injured children, one of them is 22 months old, two are 2 years old and one is 3 years old, said the prosecutor of the Republic of Annecy, Line Bonnet-Mathis, reports The Parisian. The two injured 2-year-old children are cousins and of French nationality. The 3-year-old is a young girl of British nationality who was visiting France with her family, as is the 22-month-old, a young girl of Dutch nationality, according to France 3 Regions. The prosecutor also indicated that one of these children was transferred to the University Hospitals of Geneva, in Switzerland. This is the young Dutch girl, according to the latest statements by Emmanuel Macron. It is at the University Hospital of Grenoble (Isère) that the other three are located, where the Head of State visited them, accompanied by his wife, on Friday morning, indicates France Blue.
Emmanuel Macron brings “the support of the nation” to the victims
This Friday afternoon, the President of the Republic declared that he wanted to “give the support of the entire nation to these children and their families”, reports Point. Returning more specifically to the state of health of the three children hospitalized at the Grenoble University Hospital, Emmanuel Macron assured that “they are stabilized”. Regarding the British girl, he indicated that she is “awakened”. “She watches television, and it’s a bad memory already”, he assured, adding that “the doctors were very confident”, but nevertheless declaring themselves “cautious”. About “the little Dutch girl”, hospitalized in Switzerland, the Head of State said: “It’s better”. The Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs, Wopke Hoekstra, for his part affirmed on Twitter that the girl is “out of danger”.
After going to the Grenoble University Hospital, the Head of State went to the Annecy hospital to visit one of the two adult victims of the knife attack. This 70-year-old man was stabbed by the suspect, but also shot when the police fired to arrest the assailant. “He is awake,” said Emmanuel Macron, also giving reassuring news, reports France Blue. The second adult victim in this attack is a 78-year-old man. He was only superficially injured in the left arm, and was therefore able to return home without hospitalization after being put in two stitches by the emergency services on site, as reported The Parisian. “I know it could have been much more serious. Fortunately, I had a good reflex by kicking his knife away,” he told the Ile-de-France daily.
This Friday afternoon, the Head of State wanted to “thank” the emergency services and the police present during his visit to the prefecture of Haute-Savoie, and expressed his “pride” towards the citizens. , law enforcement and rescue workers who intervened during the attack. “We owe you a lot,” he said. “Attacking children is the most barbaric act there is”, also denounced Emmanuel Macron, indicates France Blue. François Astorg, EELV mayor of Annecy, for his part announced on Twitter that the city will organize a “citizen rally in support of the victims and their loved ones” on Sunday June 11 at 11 a.m.