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Several small children were injured Thursday morning when a knife-wielding Syrian migrant attacked them in a playground in a park in the French Alpine town of Annecy. Eyewitnesses told local media that a man wearing a head covering attacked the children while they were playing.
Police were immediately deployed to the scene and French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said in a tweet that the sole suspect was "arrested thanks to the very rapid intervention of the police."
French police said later that there were a total of six people wounded in the attack, including four children.
Ambulances ferried the injured children to a nearby hospital. Local newspaper Le Dauphiné libéré said earlier that at least three of the children were in critical condition.
Reports said the children were all about three years old and were from a kindergarten class that was playing in the Jardins de l'Europe lakeside park.
Mobile phone footage of the attack shows how no one but one man stood up to the attacker and even he only threw his backpack before retreating. A female jogger runs by as if without a care in the world.
This is what it looks like when your culture has died and you have nothing left to fight for anymore.