At least five people, including three children, were injured in knife attacks in Dublin city center this Thursday. The suspect was stopped during his crazy chase by Benicio Caio, a delivery man on a motorcycle. In the press he reported this moment of “pure instinct” in which he stopped the attacker.
As violence continues to rock the city of Dublin on Thursday night, one man stands out as a hero. The one who stopped the attacker in his mad rush. In the Irish press, Benicio Caio describes how he arrested the person suspected of injuring at least five people, including three children, with a bladed weapon near a school this Thursday, November 23rd.
An “instinctive” reflex for this father
The 43-year-old father from Brazil was riding a motorcycle on this street in the city center. This Thursday evening, this Deliveroo delivery man was completing an errand in the Irish capital when he saw a man armed with a knife pounce on a young girl. Immediately, this Brazilian got out of his vehicle and took off his helmet to use it against the attacker, who “fell to the ground”. “Other people were there but they couldn’t intervene because the person was armed. I knew I could use my helmet as a weapon,” he testified in the Irish press.
In a few seconds “it was over.” An instinctive reflex. “I haven’t even made a decision yet,” he admits to the Irish website TheJournal, emphasizing that he is a father of two himself.
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The father’s thoughts are also with the five-year-old girl “who seemed so vulnerable.” According to police, she was “severely” injured in the attack and was treated by emergency responders who arrived a few minutes after this tragedy. “I’m praying for her, that’s all I can think about,” the father confesses worriedly after seeing her abandoned in the ambulance. “If one of the children doesn’t survive, I will always tell myself that I could have been faster,” he regrets, noting that his recent knee surgery “slowed him down” in his actions. What if all victims survived? Again, Benicio Caio doesn’t want to be seen as a hero. On the other hand. He will simply be “grateful to have been in the right place at the right time.”
I did what anyone would do
I did what anyone would do
Benicio Caio
Speaking to the online site, Benicio admits that he has another concern. That the Irish are against immigrants. He himself, who traveled from Brazil without his children after the fire in his restaurant, says he is saddened by the chaos that reigns on the streets of Dublin, where right-wing rioters set fire to cars, looted shops and chanted “Irish Lives Matter.” have. Signs in a neighborhood with a particularly high number of immigrants. “I’m an immigrant and I did what I could to save this little girl.”
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