The nice words of Iker Jiménez to the father of the skateboarding hero

Four children and two adults have been stabbed by a 32-year-old man in a park Annecy, city of France. The man, a Syrian refugee, was breaking into the Le Pâquier park, where he attacked everyone who got in his way and had to be reduced by several agents.

Given what happened in Annecy, a 24-year-old boy, leaning on his backpack to cover himself, confronted this man to try to get him away from the children who were in the park and here the memory of Ignacio Echevarría, the hero of the skateboard’.

‘Horizonte’ has connected with Joaquín, father of Ignacio Echevarría better known as ‘the hero of the skateboard’, who was the only Spanish fatality victim of the terrorist attack in London on June 3, 2017. Ignacio was assassinated while trying to defend a woman who was being stabbed by the three terrorists, hitting them with her skateboard.

Joaquín was in Annecy, the place of the events, and it is because a daughter of his lives in this part of France, a place that he frequents a lot since she has been there. “Look at the incredible coincidence, here we have the hero of the backpackas was your son in the attacks with the skateboard that confronts the individual who was acting with considerable impunity”, Iker Jiménez pointed out in this regard.

“There is no doubt, this man risked his life, defended the people who were being attacked and did something tremendously meritorious”, Joaquín said about this boy who appears in the images confronting this man with his backpack.

And he tells how the park and the area where these stabbings have occurred: “I have seen my grandchildren and other children play, it is a playground and I had no idea that it could be a troublesome place”.

“The last hero is never the last y after the path that your son left, there are people who are capable of endangering his life Seeing that they are attacking children, that example must be highlighted as your son did, that we never forget him”, Iker Jiménez told him, words that Joaquín thanked before ending his connection from Annecy with ‘Horizonte’.