2023-11-24 15:22:00
the essentials A French high school student, an intern in Dublin, is said to have helped disarm the knife attacker who injured five people Thursday near a school in the Irish capital.
A man attacked five people with a knife on Thursday November 23 in Dublin. According to information from BFMTV confirmed by France Blue Champagne, one of the people who helped disarm the attacker is a French high school student. He suffered minor injuries to his hand and face in the attack.
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Alan, a final year student in Bazeilles in the Ardennes, is, again according to BFMTV, on an internship in the Irish capital. According to France Bleu, the young Ardennese practices self-defense. The day before, AFP reported that the attacker had been disarmed by a delivery man, without giving further details on the identity of the latter. Irish media RTE claims for its part that a Deliveroo delivery man of Brazilian origin disarmed the attacker using his motorcycle helmet.
The incident happened on Thursday afternoon near a school in Dublin’s Parnell Square. Five people, including a teacher and three children. A five-year-old girl is “in very serious condition” according to police.
Violence broke out following this attack in the heart of the Irish capital. For several hours Thursday evening, rioters set fire to vehicles, looted and ransacked businesses, and clashed with the police, in a district of central Dublin where an immigrant population notably lives.
According to the Irish media RTE, the police do not consider the facts to be of a terrorist nature and consider the situation to be under control. A suspect has been arrested, announced Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar. According to RTE, it concerns a man in his forties, who was hospitalized with serious injuries.
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