In April 2024, reports were dispersed on the Internet that a man who repulsed the criminal who attacked with a knife to visitors to Mall in the Australian city was a citizen of the Russian Federation. We decided to check if this is so.
April 13, 2024, a criminal armed with a knife, attacked For visitors to the shopping center in Sydney, killing six people and injuring at least eight. He was later shot by a police officer while trying to resist during the detention. The reasons that prompted the man to make an armed attack are still unknown. It is notedThat all the dead, except for the guard of the shopping center, are women. According to the parents of the criminal, he suffered from a mental disorder and refused to take medicine.
The feat of the alleged Russian, which all Australia allegedly sought out to reward for heroism, many Russian media told the same day ("Russian newspaper","RIA Novosti", "Gazeta.ru","Arguments and facts" Life, "Tsargrad" RT et al.). Also, this news was discussed by users of social networks ("VKontakte","Classmates") And Platform blog. However, the next day some publications (for example, RBC) with reference to the Russian embassy in Australia, they reported that the man who defended visitors to the shopping center from the criminal turned out to be a Ukrainian. For it right away reacted Pro -Russian bloggers in Telegram,who were “in criticaland the moment Khokhol suddenly turns out to be Russian" And passes into Russian.
Apparently, the basis of publications on how the Russian repulsed the attacker at the shopping center in Sydney, lies a four -second video shot during the attack. On the viral video, it is clear how a man, armed with a barrier column, does not let the criminal up the escalator. This visitor to the shopping center has gained wide fame on the network as Bollard Man, that is, a "man with a column." At the very end of a short video, a man shouts something like a Russian -speaking phrase “Do not come!”.
Since the man’s act acquired a great resonance, the journalists established his personality - and he had already managed to give interview The Australian media, which was published on April 15. The hero was not at all a Russian and not a Ukrainian, but a Frenchman named Damien Hero. On April 13, he, along with his friend Silas, went to the shopping center and became a witness to the attack. The men immediately armed themselves with the protective columns and tried to stop the criminal. Draot did not get on the video, so I did not gain such wide fame. It is reported that the hero was in Australia on a temporary visa, which expires in July, but on April 16, Prime Minister Anthony Albaniz declaredthat the government will consider the extension of this document, and in the future, the provision of Australian citizenship to the Frenchman.
On the same day, the French ambassador to Australia Pierre Andre Impert wrote On their page in X: “Two of our compatriots showed great courage, trying to stop the attacker. I thanked them on behalf of France, and soon we will have the opportunity to express our collective gratitude to them. ” Later to him joined And French President Emmanuel Macron, adding: “Two of our compatriots behaved like real heroes. Very great pride and recognition. "
The information that the hero has Russian or Ukrainian citizenship, Russian or Ukrainian roots, or at least ever visited Russia or Ukraine, was “verified”.
Many Russian Mediawho spoke about the Russian origin of a “person with a column”, I referred On the reports of the Australian television channel 7news, but “verified” could not find such information on his website. Perhaps the correspondent who led the air from the scene in the first minutes after the incident really said something similar, based, for example, on the same four -second video, but later the channel did not report this.
As for the phrase, said by the hero who was attacked and accepted by many (obviously, erroneously) for the Russian -speaking “Don’t come!”, The fragmentation of the record and its low quality do not allow us to reliably establish what exactly he shouted. Perhaps it was a French colloquial phrase “Viens Pas ICI”, which can be literally translated as “Do not go here”.
The phenomenon, when a person did not hear or interpreted the phrase, endowing it with a new meaning on the basis of consonance, is called Mondugrin, or a dawn. That is, in this case, Russian -speaking spectators who do not know French could “hear” the Russian -speaking phrase suitable in meaning. The same fate befell, for example, a song from the Soviet film “D’Artagnan and Three Musketeers”, where some words from French are found in a predominantly Russian-speaking text-Internet users They tellthat in the song of the same name they do not hear French "Pourquoi PAS?”, And“ half a clip ”,“ doll-fu ”and other expressions familiar to them. A dawn can occur in the framework of one language: so, some Recognizedthat in childhood it seemed to them that Alla Pugacheva in the song "Harlequino"Sings not" there is one reward - laughter, "but" there is one leg for all. "
Thus, there is no reason to believe that Damien Hero, who repulsed him to attack visitors to the shopping center in Sydney, has any relation to Russia or Ukraine. On the Internet, which was dispersed on the Internet, you can hear a short video how the hero shouts something similar to the words “Don’t come!”, But there is no other evidence in support of publications in the media. Judging by the interviews that Australian journalists took from a “man with a column”, there is no reason to doubt that he is a French citizen.
Photo on the cover: screenshots from video YouTube channel 7news Australia
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