The world woke up in dismay this Thursday after hearing the news of the knife attack in a Annecy Park, in eastern France. The attacker, an asylum seeker of Syrian origin, has injured four children and one adult, three of whom are in serious condition.
The French footballer Anthony LeTalleca former Liverpool player and regional team player, was a direct witness to the stabbing, something that he has been in charge of relating in the first person through his social networks. Still shocked by what happened, he has not hesitated to tell how he had experienced the attack in the park.
The terrifying testimony of the footballer who lived through the attacks in France
«I am going to explain what has happened and what I have seen. I was running on the edge of the lake and suddenly I see dozens of people running in the opposite direction to mine. I wonder ‘what is happening’”, explained the French athlete, who was surprised by the screams. “Suddenly, a mother tells me ‘Run! Runs! There’s someone stabbing everyone along the lake. He has stabbed children. Runs! Run! ‘”, He recounted through her Instagram account.
The footballer even came to have almost direct contact with the attacker: «I go ahead and see that the guy actually comes in front of me. And I see the policemen 5 or 10 meters behind him who they can’t catch it. He’s coming towards me, so I move to the side a little bit and I see that he’s running straight towards a grandpa and a grandma,” the Frenchman pointed out.
What he was able to observe there was one of the five stabbings very closely: «Right there he attacked the grandfather. He stabbed him once and the policemen behind him couldn’t catch him,” said the Annecy FC striker. It was then that he decided to go directly to the security forces to ask them to stop the massacre: «I told the cop I’ll shoot him, who was stabbing everyone. He attacked once, twice, and then he started shooting ».
Very critical of the action of the French police to stop the attacker
During his story, the footballer has also been very critical of the lack of reaction from the police, who could not prevent the attacks from taking place: «He shot at the person and he fell to the ground. But the grandfather was already hurt. I continued and I see children on the ground at the bottom of the lake, children on the ground. So very unfortunate, injured children, it’s unbelievable. But the cops, the slowness… That’s what I noticed, it’s amazing how slow they are to set something in motion. The type had time to stab the old man twice. In short, it’s unfortunate, it’s unfortunate. It’s crazy to see that in Annecy,” concluded Le Tallec.
