The attacker slashed at the 24-year-old man with the knife that he used to savagely stab one young child after another. But rather than run, Henri held his ground using a weighty backpack he was carrying to swing at the assailant and parry his blade. French media hailed Henri as the hero with a rucksack Friday after he was shown in a video grappling with the assailant and charging after him during the knife attack that critically wounded four children between the ages of 22 months and 3 years old, and also injured two adults. Henri had a heavy rucksack on his back and was holding another in his hand when the attacker slashed at him. Even after being slashed at, Henri still continued to harass the attacker by pursuing him inside a playground where the man repeatedly stabbed a child in a stroller and then out of the park again, carrying his rucksacks all the while. He appeared to hurl one of the sacks at the assailant at one point and then pick it up again to take another ...
Speaking in French, he vows allegiance to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.