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Four young children stabbed in a playground in the French Alps are no longer in life-threatening condition but remain hospitalized, the regional prosecutor said Saturday, as the suspected attacker was handed preliminary charges of attempted murder...
The children who were stabbed, between 22 months and 3 years old, were in hospitals in France and Switzerland...
The suspect, a 31-year-old Syrian refugee with permanent Swedish residency, has a 3-year-old daughter living in Sweden, regional prosecutor Line Bonnet-Mathis told reporters Saturday..
The Dutch girl also has improved, and a critically injured adult who was both knifed and wounded by a shot that police fired as they detained the suspected attacker is regaining consciousness, Macron said...
He applied for asylum in France last year and was refused a few days before the attack, on the grounds that he had already won asylum in Sweden in 2013, the French interior minister said.. Annecy is planning a public gathering at the site of the attack on Sunday in support of the victims..
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