![]() I need to try and turn that into something positive," he said. ![]() "I now have all these horrible images in my head. Henri - who is set to meet President Emmanuel Macron later on Friday - said he had to revisit the gruesome details of the attack during a three-hour statement to police on Thursday. I think that, on the contrary, something very bad inhabited him." The entire Christian civilisation on which our country is built is a knightly message to defend widows and orphans. "It is profoundly unchristian to attack the vulnerable. Police said they arrested a Syrian refugee over the attack and told journalists the suspect had been carrying Christian insignia.Īsked about the suggestion that attacker may have been Christian, Henri said it made no sense. "We tried to scare him and make clear he could not do what he wanted," he said. Henri said other young people had also pursued the attacker. They would decide what would happen," he said. "I let myself be guided by providence and the Virgin Mary. ![]() ![]() The devout Catholic said he had felt a strong force inside him pushing him to act. Video footage shows him trying to block the assailant with one of his two backpacks, pursuing the man into the playground and throwing one of his bags at the attacker. It was unthinkable to do nothing," the philosophy and management student told CNEWS. ![]() On my journey to the cathedrals I crossed paths with this man and I have acted instinctively. "All I know is that I was not there by chance. It was God's will that he was there and able to intervene, he suggested. PARIS, June 9 (Reuters) - A modern-day pilgrim on a walking tour of France's cathedrals told journalists on Friday his Catholic faith gave him the strength to fight a man who stabbed four children in a park in Annecy.ĭubbed "the backpack hero" - "le héros au sac a dos" - by media, the 24-year-old who only gave his name as Henri said he was near a playground when he saw the man attacking children in a stroller as their mother tried to shield them on Thursday. ![]()
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