'Bollard men' heroes who took on Bondi knifeman identified

Australian Community Media

The “bollard men”, two heroic shoppers who used bollards to try to stop Joel Cauchi from attacking fellow customers at Bondi Westfield, have been identified as two French migrants.

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00:00 I'm not going to lie, I was scared,

00:01 but you cannot just like

00:03 stay away and not do anything.

00:05 The Bollard men, two heroic shoppers

00:08 who used bollards to try to stop

00:10 Joel Couchy from attacking fellow

00:12 customers at Bondi Westfield,

00:13 have been identified as two French

00:16 migrants.

00:17 Trady's Silas Despro and Damon

00:19 Giroux worked together to help

00:21 contain the offender after Couchy's

00:23 stabbing spree in Sydney's eastern

00:24 suburbs left six people dead.

00:26 We saw him going down,

00:28 so we follow him from the top,

00:30 try to maybe like throw the bollard

00:32 to him.

00:32 Footage of Damien at the top of an

00:34 escalator soon went viral after the

00:36 attack, where it's reported he was

00:38 preventing Couchy from reaching a

00:40 children's play area.

00:41 The two Frenchmen are said to have

00:43 guided police officer Amy Scott to

00:45 Couchy's location, where she

00:47 ultimately brought his rampage to an

00:48 end with a well-placed shot.

00:50 [Music]

00:51 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:54 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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