Anthony Le Tallec was jogging around the pristine waters of Lake Annecy in the foothills of the Alps when a wave of panicked bystanders rushed past in the opposite direction.
"There's someone stabbing everyone along the lakeshore. He's knifed children," Le Tallec, a former professional football player with Liverpool FC, quoted her as telling him in a video account of what he saw that he posted on Instagram.
"I see that he's heading straight for a group of elderly men and women. He attacks one grandpa, stabs him once, the cops can't catch him, so I tell the cops, 'Shoot him'," Le Tallec continued. The suspect was a 31-year-old Syrian refugee granted asylum in Sweden 10 years ago and in France legally, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said.One eyewitness' video of the attack, verified by Reuters, shows the assailant jump a low wall into a children's playground and repeatedly lunge at a child's stroller, pushing aside a woman who tries to fend him off.
"One had a knife wound in the neck, another in the abdomen," he said. "I applied pressure to the wounds and waited for the emergency services."Le Paquier park where the attack took place is popular with local people and tourists who swarm to Annecy in summer to boat on the lake's turquoise waters and hike in the nearby forested mountains.
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