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Finland killings: Briton who helped victims says he is 'not a hero'



A British man who went to the aid of victims of a knife attack in Finland has told the BBC he is "not a hero".
Hassan Zubier, a paramedic born in Kent who now lives in Sweden, said he did "what he was trained for" when a knifeman stabbed two women to death in the city of Turku on Friday.
Mr Zubier - who was injured during the attack - kicked the knifeman as he tried to save a woman's life.
Police in Finland are treating the attack as a terrorist incident.
Mr Zubier, 45, who was born in Dartford, was on holiday in Turku when he was caught up in the attack.He said he saw a man stabbing a woman as she lay on the ground.
"I saw the severe injuries she had," he told the BBC from his hospital bed, adding that he went over to try to stop the bleeding.
"The man came back. He tried to stab me. I kicked him off. He ran away. He came back.
"Then I felt someone like hitting me in the back. People screamed. I was trying to save her life."
But the woman's injuries were so severe that she died in his arms.Mr Zubier said he was not a hero, but a "human being who cares for other human beings".
"It may sound silly, but that's me. I would do it again, anytime, because the world is such a dark place and if we don't help each other, who's going to help us?
"At the same time, a girl lost her life. I think it's so upsetting that I couldn't save her. This is the world we live in at this time."
The knifeman, an 18-year-old Moroccan, was arrested after being shot by police. Four other Moroccans have been held.
The two women stabbed to death were both Finnish while eight people were injured.Police say the knifeman appeared to choose women as targets, with six of the eight wounded being female.
Prime Minister Juha Sipila told a press conference that Finland had experienced a terror attack for the first time.
Police said in a statement: "The act had been investigated as murder, but during the night we received additional information which indicates that the criminal offences are now terrorist killings."
The UK embassy in Finland said it had "been in touch with the British national and offered consular support".

Finland killings: Briton who helped victims says he is 'not a hero' - BBC News

We need more like him.
Well done fella.

Originally Posted by Lantern

We need more like him.
Well done fella.

could he be a muslim perchance.

Just wonder what those Fins did to deserve this ? I guess even if your nice you'll be hated.



Finland struggles to come to terms with terror attack

Intelligence officials monitor rising jihadi propaganda against Nordic country


Juha Sipilä, Finland’s prime minister, had a simple message for his countrymen in the wake of the deadly knife attack in the country’s third largest, and oldest city, Turku, on Friday: “We have feared this . . . We are not an island any more.” Until last week, it seemed Finland had been spared from the rising tide of jihadi terrorism that has washed over many of its European neighbours. Friday’s attack in Turku — a city of just over 180,000 people on the Baltic coast in Finland’s south west — left two women dead in the market square and eight more people injured. Finnish police have opened their first ever terror investigation. An 18-year-old Moroccan asylum seeker, who arrived in Finland last year, is their main suspect. He was shot in the leg by police a few minutes after the first reports of the stabbings.
(Would have never happened in Israel )
Four other Moroccans have been arrested and an Interpol warrant has been issued for a fifth person. Until only two months ago, Finland had kept its assessment of the terrorist threat on the lowest possible level. The Nordic country of 5m people does not feature prominently in jihadi invective against the west. Despite Finland’s armed forces having occasionally supported Nato missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, the country’s longstanding nonaligned and peaceable military status has insulated it from most blowback from crises in the Middle East. And while Finland has taken in a large number of asylum seekers — a record 32,500 in 2015 — the numbers are well below those in neighbouring Sweden, which suffered a truck attack in April that killed five. “The assumption has been that the major terrorist organisations have not been interested in operating in Finland,” said Leena Malkki, a researcher at the University of Helsinki. “So [this] would be somebody who gets inspired to act by something they have seen.” The attack, Ms Malkki noted, is likely to have required little planning or forethought. “[It was] easy to carry out.” Finnish police initially refused to speculate on the motivation behind the rampage, other than to say the suspect appeared to target women deliberately. Some witnesses claimed they heard the perpetrator cry “Allahu akbar”, but others have claimed it was instead the Finnish words for “watch out”, shouted by bystanders. Police now say they will investigate potential links to the Barcelona attacks last week — where the suspects are Moroccan too — as well as whether the Turku attacker was inspired by Isis. The terror group has not claimed responsibility. Finnish intelligence officials gave several reasons in June for raising the terror threat from “low” to “elevated”, the second level out of four. The country was being increasingly targeted in radical Islamist propaganda, including incitements to attack Finland, Supo, the Finnish security intelligence service, said. The agency added that it had “become aware of more serious terrorism-related plans and projects in Finland”. The number of individuals targeted by counter-terrorism has risen to about 350, an increase of 80 per cent since 2012. After the Turku attack, the head of Supo said the threat level would not be lifted further. The stabbings were in accordance with the intelligence assessment that actions by a “lone wolf” or small groups were most likely. “The suspect’s profile is similar to that of several other recent radical Islamist terror attacks that have taken place in Europe,” said intelligence chief Antti Pelttari. The stabbings are, meanwhile, almost certain to influence Finnish politics. The most prominent anti-immigration party, the True Finns, tore itself in two recently after electing a hardliner as leader having endured a torrid time in its first experience of government. The attack in Turku may solidify support for the party. Ville Tavio, a True Finns MP from Turku, blamed the “Finnish elite” and its “uncontrolled immigration policy” in the aftermath of the stabbings. “It is an attack that will influence the Finnish debate,” said the University of Helsinki’s Ms Malkki. “It will make this question about immigration and asylum seekers even more polarised.”

https://www.ft.com/content/ad0a55d2-...0-e1c239b45787

Can we be critical of those countries that don't allow certain people in ? (Hungary, Poland etc.)

Originally Posted by lob

Originally Posted by Lantern

We need more like him.
Well done fella.

could he be a muslim perchance.

So what's that tattoo on his right arm then?

Coptic Christian cross?

Should change the headline a bit.

Finland killings: Briton who helped victims says he is 'not a hero' in Finnish. That's what I saw on youtube. There's none of him speaking English.

Yeah that's vital information.