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Australia religion stabbing captured connected livestream
A fishy was apprehended aft aggregate group were injured during a stabbing astatine a religion successful Wakeley, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, connected Monday night. (Credit: Christ The Good Shepherd Church)
Australia's premier curate says a French building worker who confronted a man who stabbed six people to decease successful a Sydney shopping promenade is invited to enactment successful nan state arsenic agelong arsenic he likes.
Damien Guerot has been nicknamed "Bollard Man" connected societal media because of information camera footage showing him opinionated astatine nan apical of an escalator menacing Joel Cauchi pinch a integrative bollard arsenic he approached. Cauchi fled down nan escalator and group connected Guerot’s level were kept safe.
Guerot’s impermanent Australian activity visa was owed to expire successful July until nan premier curate intervened.
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"I opportunity this to Damien Guerot, who is dealing pinch his visa applications, that you are invited here, you are invited to enactment for arsenic agelong arsenic you like," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters Tuesday.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters connected Tuesday that Damien Guerot, a French building worker who has a impermanent activity visa group to expire successful July, is invited to enactment successful nan state for arsenic agelong arsenic he likes, aft he bravely stood up against nan knife-wielding man astatine a Sydney shopping promenade which near six group dead. (Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)
"This is personification who we would invited becoming an Australian citizen, though that would of people beryllium a nonaccomplishment for France," Albanese added.
Guerot’s lawyer Belinda Robinson told SBS News that nan authorities had provided an assurance precocious Tuesday that he would beryllium fixed an Australian imperishable resident visa.
Guerot was 1 of a number of group praised for intervening successful nan attack. Officials person said nan toll could person been overmuch higher. Police said nan attacker targeted women; 5 were among those killed.
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Cauchi besides injured astatine slightest a twelve others, including a 9-month-old babe whose mother was killed, earlier a constabulary serviceman changeable him dead.
