France hails ‘hero with a backpack’ who intervened in knife attack on very young children
Associated PressLE PECQ, France — The attacker slashed at the 24-year-old Catholic pilgrim with the knife that he used to savagely stab one young child after another. French media hailed Henri as “the hero with a backpack” Friday after he was shown in a video grappling with the assailant and charging after him during the knife attack that critically wounded four children between the ages of 22 months and 3 years old, and also injured two adults. A wounded British girl “is awake, she’s watching television,” Macron added, speaking to first responders. After the assailant’s arrest, and having seen that first responders were treating victims, Henri said: “I had just one reflex – which was to start to pray.” The 3-year-old British girl and two French cousins — a girl and a boy, both 2 years old — were rushed to a hospital in the French Alpine city of Grenoble. Portugal’s foreign ministry said he is Portuguese and “now out of danger.” He was wounded “trying to stop the attacker from fleeing from the police,” it said.
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