The suspect in a knife attack that wounded four children and two pensioners in the southeastern French town of Annecy on Thursday was placed in custody. The town's prosecutor, Lynn Bonnet Mattis, said the suspect was under formal investigation for attempted murder and using a weapon to resist arrest.Images broadcast on French television showed the suspect being carried by police officers on a stretcher to a black car waiting at the back door of the police station.
The prosecutor added at a news conference that the injured were no longer in a life-threatening condition.