France hails ‘hero with a backpack’ who intervened in knife attack on young children
LA TimesFrench President Emmanuel Macron, left, meets Henri, right, who is being hailed as a hero for intervening in a savage knife attack on young children. In Annecy, the French leader thanked medical workers, police, firefighters, civilians — including Henri — and others whose first aid and swift interventions helped save lives during the attack in the town’s lakeside park. And other people immediately went over to the children to take care of the injured.” Henri added: “I remember there was also a municipal worker who arrived from the right with a large plastic shovel to try to hit him.” French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said Friday that all four children underwent surgery for their life-threatening knife wounds and “are under constant medical surveillance.” Politics Trump says he’s been indicted in special counsel investigation into classified documents Trump said he has been summoned to appear Tuesday in federal court in Miami after being indicted on seven counts related to his handling of classified records. Henri’s father said his son told him after the attack “that the Syrian was incoherent, saying lots of strange things in different languages, invoking his father, his mother, all the gods.