Australian PM offers permanent residency to French man who confronted Sydney mall stabber
Stabbing attack at Sydney mall
A French man who heroically confronted the knife-wielding Sydney mall attacker with the help of a bollard has been offered permanent residency by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
Damien Guerot who is being called the 'bollard man' received praise from the Australian PM. "I say this to Damien Guerot who is dealing with his visa applications, that you are welcome here, you are welcome to stay for as long as you like. This is someone who we would welcome becoming an Australian citizen, although that would of course be a loss for France. We thank him for his extraordinary bravery," Albanese said.
"It says a lot about the nature of humanity at a time when we are facing difficult issues, that someone who is not a citizen of this country stood bravely at the top of those escalators and stopped this perpetrator from getting onto another floor and potentially inflicting further carnage on citizens," he added.
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40-year-old Joel Cauchi on Saturday (April 13) went on a stabbing spreein the Westfield shopping centre at Bondi Junction, Australia. He stabbed six people including 5 female shoppers and one Pakistani security guard. Twelve others were injured in the attack, including a nine-month-old whose mother was killed. An Australian police woman shot the culprit at the scene. It is suspected that the attacker might have specifically targeted women.
Who is the bollard man?
Footage of Damien Guerot confronting knifeman Joel Cauchi with a bollard during the attack made rounds of social media. The video shows Guerot wielding a plastic pole to ward the attacker off on an escalator.
"We just saw him coming... we were thinking, 'We need to try to stop him'," Guerot said in an interview with Australian TV network.
(With inputs from agencies)
