hello, welcome to verified live. three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. a man with a knife has attacked nursery school children in the french town of annecy. the victims are as young as three, according to french reports, which say two children and a man are in a life threatening condition. one of the children attacked is a british national and another is a dutch national. a man was arrested near the scene. the moment of his arrest was captured on camera. take a look. people are screaming in the background. the man in this video injured whilst being arrested, police say he is a syrian who has refugee status in sweden, with no known links to islamist groups. he has a child who is apparently the same age as the little chldren he attacked. this all happened in the town of annecy, in the french alps. the children, all aged three and under, were on an outing to a park, some in pushchairs. the attacker also stabbed an elderly man walking nearby, be
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visible in hand. we can t show you what happened next. this video shows him running away. from syria. 31 years old. this is the park where it happened. 10am this morning. lots of young children there. the man with the knife has a child of his own, around the same age as those he attacked. let s hearfrom people who were there. translation: all of a sudden, a lady says, run, run, - there is a guy who stabbing everyone all along the lake . he stabbed some children . run, run . i tell the cops to shoot him, kill him, he is stabbing everybody . i was approaching that end of the lake, i saw and heard multiple police sirens and a helicopter about to land. i knew immediately there was some very dire emergency situation happening. so i stopped where i was, at the corner of the park near the lake, and started photographing. i observed a channel 26 french tv person with her cameraman. it was somewhat chaotic. the police were trying to keep bicyclists and people from approaching the
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Vincent is in annecy and witnessed the moments after the attack. i was approaching that end of the lake, i saw and heard multiple police sirens and a helicopter about to land. i knew immediately there was some very dire emergency situation happening. so i stopped where i was, at the corner of the park near the lake, and started photographing. i observed a channel 26 french tv person with her cameraman. it was somewhat chaotic. the police were trying to keep bicyclists and people from approaching the scene, which was fairly far away from where i was standing. you could see it, but it was closer to the lake where the stabbing occurred in one of the public park areas. we have had some reaction from some more uk politicians. the home secretary suella braverman said that she is appalled by the playground attack in the lakeside park in the