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France hails ‘backpack hero’ who fought Annecy knife attacker after several children were stabbed
NY Post ^
| 06/09/2023
| Reuters
Posted on 06/09/2023 6:17:06 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
France is calling him “the backpack hero”, a young Catholic pilgrim on a walking tour of cathedrals who came face to face with the man who stabbed several children in a park in Annecy.
Henri, a 24-year-old management and philosophy student, was near the playground in Le Paquier Park when he saw the man attacking children in a stroller as their mother desperately tried to shield them on Thursday.
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.
So far, most of France only knows him by his first name. That is all there is on his social media accounts and police have not gone into more detail.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Syria
KEYWORDS: annecy; assadworshippers; backpack; france; hero; islamofascism; islamofascist; islamofascists; justwait; knife; koranimals; lepaquierpark; syria
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To: ChicagoConservative27
If this had happened in a democrat hellhole like New York City, the hero would have been arrested.
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posted on
06/09/2023 7:14:20 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Target, Busch and Disney support sexual mutilation and sterilization of children. Boycott )
To: marktwain
“What a difference even a walking stick would have made!”
Or an assault-capable umbrella. Something heavy enough to hurt if swung at an attacker’s head.
To: Danie_2023
Or an assault-capable umbrella.
I’ve read about them. Can go anywhere and not be suspected as a defensive weapon. In many places men carry umbrellas without notice.
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posted on
06/09/2023 7:31:12 AM PDT
by
hanamizu
To: hanamizu
To: allendale
Management and philosophy is an interesting double major. Maybe he wants to be a French Peter Drucker.
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posted on
06/09/2023 8:08:13 AM PDT
by
Lisbon1940
(I don’t see why they would)
To: hanamizu
John Steed’s umbrella perhaps?
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posted on
06/09/2023 8:53:35 AM PDT
by
CletusVanDamme
(The breaking point will be reached soon. )
To: hanamizu
I’ve read about them. Can go anywhere and not be suspected as a defensive weapon. In many places men carry umbrellas without notice. Not to a professional sports stadium. Even in a rainstorm.
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posted on
06/09/2023 2:01:01 PM PDT
by
JimRed
(TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
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06/09/2023 2:19:49 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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