The Latest Breaking News from Annecy

French president and wife also meet ‘backpack hero’, as suspect’s detention extended after psychiatric evaluation

The philosophy graduate, who is on a pilgrimage of cathedrals in France, has taken to social media to send his thoughts and prayers to the families of the young victims

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday visited the hospital where preschool children who were wounded in a knife attack in the Alpine town of Annecy were being treated. Four children and two adults were injured in the attack by a Syrian refugee. The president said that their conditions were improving.

Father Didier Milani and Bishop Yves Le Saux were pictured hosting the packed service in Annecy on Friday

A three-year-old British girl was injured in the stabbings in Annecy, according to reports.

Witnesses last night described the horrific moment the knifeman went on the rampage in a busy French playground, ­indiscriminately stabbing defenceless children

A man has stabbed four children, aged between 22 months and three years, in the French mountain town of Annecy.

The local French prosecutor said there was “no evidence” terrorism was a motive for the attack which left four children critically ill

Witnesses said the knifeman repeatedly stabbed a child in a pushchair as part of the horrific attack in the French Alps.