The man, who was on a Catholic pilgrimage in France, threw his backpack at the attacker to fend him off.
A 24-year-old has been hailed the"backpack hero" for confronting the suspect after the stabbing of a British girl and five others in a French park - while using his bag as a shield.'s cathedrals, said that after realising the extent of the attack he"followed [his] instincts and tried to protect [the] children".
Four children, aged between 22 months and three years old, were left with"life-threatening injuries" after the suspect, a Syrian refugee named by French media as Abdalmasih H, rampaged through the lakeside park in the town of Annecy.Two adult men were also hurt during the incident - one of whom was injured with the knife and by a shot fired by police as they were arresting the suspect.
"I had my big 20kg backpack on my back, I tried to run with the big one at first in the park behind him before realising he was much faster than me so I got rid of my big backpack after and followed him with my little bag."Henri added:"He tried to attack me at some point, our eyes have met. "I understood that it wasn't a guy in a normal state, something really bad was inside of him and it had to absolutely be stopped."Many other people around started, like me, to run after him to try to scare him, push him away.
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