The British media has been full of reports about Łukasz, the heroic Pole who during Friday’s terrorist attack in London tackled the bomber with a narwhal tusk which he had taken from the wall of the nearby Fishmongers’ Hall. His actions have been widely praised by the British, who noted that this is not the first time has Poland helped them.

George Byczynski, Editor-in-Chief of the British Poles portal, talks to Nicholas Richardson about the consequences of this attack.

The man who stabbed several people in London causing two deaths was Usman Khan, a convicted terrorist.  After a street fight he was was shot dead by police on Friday afternoon. Khan was in prison for plotting to bomb the London Stock Exchange in 2012. He was connected to Al-Muhajiroun (ALM) terrorists and on his mobile phone police found Anjem Choudary’s private number.

Khan had been attending a seminar in the Fishmongers’ Hall, run by Cambridge University’s Criminology Department, to help offenders reintegrate into society following their release from jail. The first person he murdered was 25 year old Jack Merritt, a course coordinator. At the time Khan was wearing a fake suicide vest and threatened to blow up the building. Later he ran out onto the bridge. In one of the Fishmongers’ Hall restaurants a Polish immigrant named Łukasz was working as a chef. He grabbed a narwhal tusk hanging on the wall and chased the murderer to London Bridge. Łukasz was stabbed but it did not stop him from „giving the attacker a beating” with the narwhal tusk. One other defender took a fire extinguisher and third lad fought with his bare hands.

Witnesses claim that the Pole grabbed the 1.5-meter narwhal tusk which hung on the wall of Fishmongers’ Hall and headed towards the convicted terrorist who shouted that he would detonate the bomb in his suicide vest.

In Friday’s terrorist attack around London Bridge, a total two people were killed and three were injured. The perpetrator, who was armed with a knife and what turned out to be dummy explosives, was shot dead by the police.

Queen Elizabeth sent her sympathies to those affected by the attack and praised those who intervened to thwart the assailant.

“I express my enduring thanks to the police and emergency services, as well as the brave individuals who put their own lives at risk to selflessly help and protect others” – she said.

Polish minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro asked president Andrzej Duda to award a medal for 'sacrifice and courage’ to Łukasz.

Source: Poland Daily/NB