THE knifeman who stabbed four kids, one a Brit, in a playground in France was quizzed by police four days before the attack.
An officer requested Syrian-born migrant Abdelmasih Hanoun to clarify why he was utilizing the lake on the park the place the atrocity occurred to clean himself.
It was not clear what motion, if any, cops took towards Hanoun, 31, who had that day discovered his asylum software had been rejected.
He was seen yesterday for the primary time since Thursday’s horror in Annecy as he left a police station for court docket.
The heavily-sedated scholar nurse, seated on a medical chair, was carried by four cops right into a black police automobile.
He appeared before two judges and was indicted on a number of fees together with making an attempt to homicide Brit Ettie Turner, three, French cousins Ennio and Alba, each two, and Peter, a 22-month-old Dutch boy, in addition to possessing an offensive weapon.
Devout Christian Hanoun, who has been “totally mute” in custody, can also be accused of knifing French adults Manuel, 70, and Youssouf, 78, in the Alpine city’s Le Paquier park.
Hanoun, who made no remark in court docket, was deemed match for trial by a psychologist and remanded in custody.
He was heard saying “in the name of Jesus Christ” as he attacked his victims.
Youssouf is out of hospital and the others are in a secure situation.
Hanoun confronted deportation as he had settlement standing in Sweden the place he left his ex-wife and daughter, three.
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin mentioned it was “a troubling coincidence” his asylum bid was rejected four days before the attack.
Sources, in the meantime, mentioned Ettie, whose household have been at her bedside in hospital, is nicely sufficient to be discharged “within the next few days”.