The attacker slashed at the man with the knife that he used to savagely stab one child after another. But Henri held his ground.
“The first thing doctors told me … is that these children were saved by the swiftness of the collective intervention,” Macron said. “Thank you immeasurably for your courage.”
“He took a lot of risks — when he wasn’t armed, with just his backpacks,” the father told The Associated Press. “He didn’t stop running after him for many minutes, to stop him from coming back and massacring the kids even more. I think he prevented carnage by scaring him off. Really very courageous.”
For his part, Henri shied away from the “hero” label. He said he “tried to act as all French people should act, or would act.” A woman lays flowers for the victims of a stabbing attack that occurred the day before in the Jardins de l’Europe park in Annecy, French Alps, on June 9, 2023.Motives for the attack in and around a children’s lakeside playground in Annecy remained unexplained. The suspect, who has refugee status in Sweden, remains in custody. Psychiatrists are evaluating him, government spokesman Olivier Veran said.
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