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Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that €202,818 raised in GoFundMe to buy a pint for Deliveroo driver, Caio Benicio, who jumped off his delivery bike to disarm Algerian Immigrant stabber in Parnell Square, Dublin City Center.
A Brazilian food delivery driver in Dublin heroically stopped the knifeman who attacked a group of young children outside their school yesterday.
The attack, which hospitalized three children under the age of 7 and a 30 year old teacher who was trying to protect them, triggered the worst riots in living memory in the Irish capital after a far right mob, described as a “lunatic, hooligan faction” by the police was whipped up by reports on social and mainstream media that the knifeman was an immigrant. The ringleaders were then joined by opportunistic rioters who looted stores, and torched buses and police vehicles.
Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar paid tribute to all those who stepped in to help, saying they “risked their lives to save lives”.
He said the school care assistant “threw herself in harm’s way” to protect the children, and he described the woman as heroic.
He also pointed out that “those who intervened weren’t just from Ireland – they were from other countries as well”.
“They are real Irish heroes, whatever their nationality,” added the taoiseach. The identity of the attacker has not been revealed but it has now emerged that the attack might have been much, much worse had it not been for the astonishing bravery and quick thinking of an immigrant who was working in Dublin; Brazilian Deliveroo rider Caio Benicio, 43.
Benicio was on a job when he saw the attack taking place. He jumped off his motorcycle, took off his helmet, and hit the attacker with it until the attacker collapsed.
“You see a man with a knife with a little girl – there is nothing else to do. You just have to act,” he added.
In the aftermath of the attack violence and riots broke out.
“I don’t have a lot of knowledge of what’s going on in Ireland.
“People say the protests are against immigrants. I am an immigrant myself and I was the one to help,” he said.
“They might have used the attack in the morning as an excuse to do what they did,” he added
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