--- description: The 37-year-old attacker from Paris is now in custody title: Mother and 3 Daughters Stabbed in French Holiday Village image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Mother and 3 Daughters Stabbed in French Holiday Village by [Tara John](/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 19, 2016 2:35 PM CUT by [Tara John](/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 19, 2016 2:35 PM CUT A woman and her three daughters were stabbed in a holiday resort at Garde-Colombe in France’s south-east Hautes-Alpes region. A man [attacked](http://metro.co.uk/2016/07/19/mother-and-three-daughters-stabbed-in-french-resort-for-being-scantily-dressed-6016072/ "undefined") the mother and her daughters, aged between 8 to 14, on Tuesday morning outside their bungalow. Three victims were said to have non-life threatening injuries but the the fourth, the 8-year-old girl, was in a more serious condition. A 37-year-old man from Paris has since been detained and taken into custody [says _Le Figaro_](http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2016/07/19/01016-20160719ARTFIG00181-une-mere-et-ses-trois-filles-agressees-a-l-arme-blanche-dans-les-hautes-alpes.php "undefined"). French media reported that the suspect was staying in the same resort with his wife and fled the scene before being arrested. Raphael Balland, [the local prosecutor, told reporters](http://www.ledauphine.com/hautes-alpes/2016/07/19/il-poignarde-quatre-personnes-dans-un-village-de-vacances "undefined") that there was no truth to rumors that the victim’s state of dress was a possible motive for the attack. “I wanted to quash the rumour currently doing the rounds because on no account did this man make such comments that the attack may have been motivated by the victims’ dress.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4412422/france-attck-woman-children-stabbed-garde-colombe/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4412422/france-attck-woman-children-stabbed-garde-colombe/"},"headline":"Mother and 3 Daughters Stabbed in French Holiday Village","datePublished":"2016-07-19T14:35:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T23:21:15.541Z","description":"The 37-year-old attacker from Paris is now in custody","url":"https://time.com/4412422/france-attck-woman-children-stabbed-garde-colombe/","keywords":["France"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tara John","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tara-john/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4412422/france-attck-woman-children-stabbed-garde-colombe/","name":"Mother and 3 Daughters Stabbed in French Holiday Village"}}]}] ```