According to the Minister of Justice, if the gardaí had not acted swiftly, a random knife assault in a Dublin area on Sunday may have resulted in a fatality, reports Breaking News.
The minister described the Sunday afternoon knife incident in Stoneybatter as “random” and said that three males were hurt.
The “serious incident” prompted a massive police reaction, including from the Public Order Unit, and resulted in the arrest of a man in his 20s at the site, reports Breaking News.
The scenario “could have been a lot worse” if the gardaí hadn’t been at the scene “extremely fast,” according to Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan.
“We could have been sitting here talking about more serious injuries against a greater number of people or we could have, I regret to say, been talking about fatalities had the gardai not arrived promptly,” reports Breaking News.
According to him, one of the injured men is his friend’s brother, and the occurrence was “shocking” for the neighbourhood and “horrific” for the individuals who were hurt.
“His brother was coming out of the house and the man came up behind him and slashed him in the back of the neck,” he told RTÉ Radio, reports Breaking News.
“I want to commend the gardai and particularly the guard who arrived there first who apprehended and disarmed the individual concerned, but also the gardai got there very quickly and had they not, I fear we could have been talking about something much worse this morning, rather than the three serious injuries that took place,” reports Breaking News.
He added: “What the gardai were indicating to me was that these were random attacks, I don’t think they had been aware of the individual before, there had been no history I think of violent attacks before by the individual. What appeared to happen was the individual went along the streets, the three locations were Oxmantown Road, Carnew Street and Niall Street, and the three men who were attacked were just unfortunately in a position where the person was passing by at the time,” reports Breaking News.
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