Girl, 8, left with punctured lungs after mum, three daughters are stabbed for being “scantily dressed”
An eight-year-old girl is currently fighting for her life with a punctured lung at a hospital in France.
She, her two sisters and their mother were stabbed, Tuesday, at the Alpine resort of Colombe, near Laragne, south of France.
The attacker, said to be of Moroccan origin, reportedly shouted that they were too scantily dressed.
The 8-year-old suffered the worst injury of all.
Her mother, 46, and sisters aged 12 and 14, are being treated at the hospital of Gap, closer to the scene of the attack, reports say.
Their injuries are severe but not considered life-threatening.
The attack took place around 10 am. The assailant stabbed the three girls on the terrace of of their chalet before attacking their mother inside.
He stabbed her in the chest, a local newspaper reported.
Local mayor, Edmond Francou, said he preferred “not to speculate about the motive of the attack” in the wake of the massacre in Nice last week.
The Moroccan-born attacker has a police record for petty crimes over the past 15 years.
He is reported to have been on holiday at the resort with his pregnant wife and two children.
The two families were staying next to each other and the assailant’s wife is “devastated”, according to the mayor.
The victims of the attack are from Nantes, in western France, and often holidayed at the resort.
The attacker is from the Paris area.
Authorities have not provided details on the incident.
The motive remains “very vague”, local prosecutor Raphaël Balland is quoted to have said.
“These are all rumours, he didn’t say anything relating to religion,” Balland said about people saying that the attacker had criticised the women before attacking them with a knife..
