Annecy, a French Alpine city, usually known for its crystal blue lake, mountain vistas and medieval old town, has become the latest city to experience a violent attack by migrant. The attacker, identified as Abdalmash H, is a 31-year-old Syrian with refugee status in Sweden. Children were enjoying a fine summers day in their local park when Abdalmash H enacted his deliberate and calculated violence on the innocent and defenceless.
Video footage appears to show the foreign male stabbing babies in prams, attacking children playing on slides and assaulting parents defending their children. British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has confirmed that a British child is one of four children hurt, who are said to be in a critical condition in hospital.
This attack, which French authorities claim has “no terror motivation”, is the latest in a long line of atrocities committed in France over the past decade, notably including the November 2015 Paris attacks, which killed 130 people, and the 2016 Nice truck attack, which killed 86. There have been dozens of smaller attacks all over France over the past decade; too many to list in this article. Many have been targeted at Catholic priests, cartoonists, and teachers as well as children.
Children seem to be a favoured target of these terrorists. They have no morality other than to inflict human suffering on their perceived enemies. Unfortunately, this country had a similar experience with the Manchester Arena bombing, committed by Libyan refugee Salman Abedi, who deliberately targeted a children’s pop-concert.
The French parliament held a minute’s silence this afternoon, as news of the attack broke. However, in a few days, the mainstream media will forget this story and move on, like it did with all the other attacks. Silence is not the action that French and European politicians should take.
Abdalmash H was brought into Europe under an open borders migration policy. Politicians must also take the blame and implement stricter vetting, or a complete moratorium on so-called refugee and migration schemes. Without proper nationalist measures, it is an unfortunate certainty that attacks, such as Annecy’s tragedy, will continue.
