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Terrorist attack in London: "Someone else had kept the narwhal tusk"

2019-12-04T13:41:20.737Z


With a narwhal tusk, a man had defied the assassin of the London Bridge. Now the Pole, celebrated as a hero, makes it clear that he was not.



Who was the man who grabbed a narwhal tusk at the attack in London and detained the terrorist Usman Khan? According to media reports, it should be a young Pole - but this speaks of a confusion.

He was not the person who kept the offender at bay with a broken narwhal tusk, the man acknowledged in a message sent by the London police. Then the employee of the old Gildehalle the Fishmonger (Fishmonger's Hall) explains the process:

"I and a few others tried to stop a man who was attacking people in the building, I did that with a pole that I found, someone else had held the narwhal tusk," he said. The offender had injured him with a knife and left the building. "Some of us followed him, but I stopped at the bollards on the bridge."

Khan was held in check with a broken narwhal tusk, a fire extinguisher, and bare hands

He acted instinctively in the terrorist attack. Only now would he realize what had happened. He expressed his condolences to the relatives of the victims.

Khan killed a woman and a man near London Bridge last Friday and injured three other people. The convicted terrorist, who was released prematurely, was overwhelmed by several passers-by on the bridge. They had kept him at bay with the narwal tusk, a fire extinguisher, and bare hands broken off the guild hall. Finally, the police shot the terrorist. He wore an explosive belt, which later turned out to be a dummy. The "Islamic State" later claimed the deed for itself, but provided no evidence for that.

According to a report in Gazeta Wyborcza, the man mistakenly considered the tusk-defender is a 38-year-old from Wroclaw. He lives according to the information for ten years in London and had last worked as a kitchen helper in the old Gildehalle. The Pole has meanwhile returned to his hometown.

Source: spiegel

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