A session of the French national assembly was briefly interrupted on Thursday, when its president informed lawmakers of a knife attack that had occurred in the French Alps. Yaël Braun-Pivet said an attacker with a knife had injured children and an adult in the Alpine town of Annecy, and asked lawmakers to observe a minute’s silence for the victims and their families, ‘so that, we hope, the consequences of this particularly serious attack do not lead to consequences that would lead the nation to be in mourning’
France knife attack: lawmakers interrupt session to observe a minute’s silence – video
