Eight children and one adult have been injured in a knife attack in Annecy, a town located in the French Alps.
Gerald Darmanin of France's interior minister said police had detained the attacker.
"Several people including children have been injured by an individual armed with a knife in a square in Annecy," he tweeted.
BFMTV reported that Thursday's attack happened in a park and the assailant had been a Syrian asylum seeker.
A local politician, Antoine Armand, labelled the attack "abominable" in a tweet.
In Paris, MPs interrupted a debate to hold a moment of silence for the victims, BFMTV said.
with Reuters