Henri had a heavy backpack and was holding another when the attacker slashed at him. But Henri pursued the man inside a playground
. The French leader toured hospitals to meet victims and their families and thanked medical workers, police, firefighters, civilians – including Henri – and others whose first aid and swift actions helped save lives.Henri asked Macron to be invited to the reopening of Notre Dame in Paris next year, following repairs to the cathedral damaged in a fire in 2019.
Henri had a heavy backpack and was holding another in his hand when the attacker slashed at him. But despite the blade and the attacker’s chilling aggression, Henri continued to harass him, pursuing the man inside a playground – where he repeatedly stabbed a child in a stroller – and then out of the park again, carrying his backpacks all the while. Henri appeared to hurl one at the assailant at one point and then pick it up again to take another swing.
Francois asked that their last name not be published, expressing concerns about their family being thrust suddenly and inadvertently into the public eye at a time of shock and outrage in France provoked by the attack’s viciousness and the helplessness of its young victims. Motives for the attack in and around a children’s playground remained unexplained. The suspect, who has refugee status in Sweden, remains in custody. Psychiatrists were evaluating him, government spokesman Olivier Veran said.
Henri, who is documenting his pilgrimage around France on social media, said he’d been setting off to hitchhike to another abbey when the horror unfolded in front of him.
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