Portuguese dies as a hero in a hate attack with knife in France

69-year-old Portuguese emigrant got between the police and the striker carrying the knife. “Your bravery, which cost you your life, may have saved so many others,” said Luís Montenegro. Five people were injured.

A man killed with a knife a person of Portuguese nationality and injured three municipal police, before being detained on Saturday afternoon in the French city of Mulhouseon the fringes of a manifestation of support to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the 69 -year -old Portuguese citizen died when he placed himself between the police and the striker carrying the knife near the German border.

“A 69 -year -old Portuguese citizen who was on site will have been filed between the police and the attacker, having been stabbed and killed“, Said the spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, adding that five other people were injuredincluding the police, two of them injured serious.

According to the Ministry of French Foreign Affairs, Portuguese He had lived in France since 1992, and was from Ermesinde. Leave the woman and a son.

Striker was referenced for risk of terrorism and was expelled several times from France

According to the Mulhouse Attorney’s Office, during the onslaught, the individual who attacked allah akbar (in Arabic, “Allah is great”). Various media, citing the attorney of Mulhouse, revealed that the aggressor is 37 years old, is a foreigner referenced by risk of terrorism and has already been the target of an order of expulsion from France.

In fact, the Algerian was already accused of terrorism and had been expelled several times from the countrywith Algeria refusing requests to receive it.

The suspect, who according to the Minister of Internal Affairs of France had “psychiatric problems” It has already been arrested and a deportation order of the French territory has already been issued.

“Every year, terrorists are released because they have already fulfilled their penalties. The time has come to change the rules to protect the French. It’s my role, ”he said, before moving to the attack site,” said Bruno Retailleau.

The French President, Emmanuel MacronHe considered there to be no doubt that the attack with a white weapon in Mulhouse, which caused a dead man, was an “act of terrorism” and “Islamic.” Macron, who was visiting the Paris Agricultural Fair, expressed “the solidarity of the nation to the family” of the deadly victim and emphasized “the determination of the government” and themselves in “continuing the work that has been done for eight years for eight years to eradicate terrorism ”of the territory.

The President of the Republic MARCELO REBELO DE SOUSA already condemned He vehemently the “attack of hatred” and lamented the death of the Portuguese citizen victim of the attack, presenting condolences to the family and the Portuguese community of this French city, in a note published on the official page of the Presidency of the Republic.

“President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa vehemently condemns that attack of hatred and remains in contact with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to follow up on the victim’s family,” he adds to the message.

The Prime Minister Luís Montenegro also sent their solidarity to the French people for the attack and He stressed the “bravery” of the Portuguese citizen That intervened and eventually died, an act that may have saved other lives.

“Faced with an attack on the community that welcomed him, a Portuguese intervened and eventually lost his life in France. His bravery, which cost him his life, may have saved so many others, ”wrote Montenegro on his official account on social network X (former Twitter). In the message, the head of the Portuguese government left “sincere condolences to family and friends – and all solidarity with the French people.”

Faced with an attack on the community that welcomed him, a Portuguese intervened and eventually lost his life in France. Its bravery, which cost him his life, may have saved so many others. I leave sincere condolences to family and friends – and all solidarity with the French people.

– Luís Montenegro (@lmontenegropm)