British lady, 3, stabbed in Annecy assault is called as Ettie Turner

The British baby stabbed by a knife-wielding attacker in Annecy has been named as Ettie Turner.

The three-year-old was attacked within the French metropolis on Thursday, together with a 22-month-old Dutch lady, and two French cousins – a boy and a lady, each aged two.

She was reportedly on vacation in France along with her household and is presently recovering in a youngsters’s hospital in Grenoble, the place she has been visited by President Macron.

All 4 youngsters have been significantly injured and stay in hospital, though their situations have improved to the purpose the place their lives are now not in peril, in response to the regional prosecutor.

There have been additionally two adults injured – a French man aged 72, and a 78-year-old Portuguese nationwide who was stabbed whereas attempting to cease the attacker from escaping and was then shot by police as they detained the suspect.

On Sunday, a few of Annecy’s residents gathered within the lakeside park the place the assault came about to present assist for these injured.

Annecy Mayor François Astorg advised the group the assault was “a tragedy touching our metropolis, the nation and the entire world.

“Our only choice is to respond with unity and hope… to choose the future rather than destruction, to gather is to build rather than hate.”

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The gathering was additionally to honour those that tried to cease the attacker earlier than police overpowered him, together with a person who was on a Catholic pilgrimage named Henri, who swung on the attacker along with his backpack.

The suspect, a refugee from Syria with Swedish residency, has been handed preliminary expenses of tried homicide and armed resistance.

Preliminary expenses imply magistrates have sturdy cause to suspect a criminal offense however are permitting extra time for investigation earlier than deciding whether or not to ship a case to trial.

The man is in detention and has refused to talk to investigators.

A psychiatrist and docs have stated he’s match to face expenses, regional prosecutor Line Bonnet-Mathis stated, including that the assault motive appears unclear however shouldn’t be regarded as terrorism.