A five-year-old girl who was stabbed outside her school in Dublin will need to ‘relearn everything’ due to the severity of her injuries, the child’s family has said.
The youngster was attacked along with two other children, a little boy and a girl, as well as a woman who worked as a creche worker in Parnell Square, Dublin, on November 23.
French-Algerian Riad Bouchaker, 50, made an appearance in court last month and was accused of assaulting a care provider and trying to kill three children, which caused unrest around the Irish city.
The little child has been in paediatric critical care for a few weeks; according to her family, she has now entered the third stage of her recuperation.
Through a message on a GoFundMe page, which has raised £55,000, her loved ones said she left the children’s ward in December.
They wrote, ‘Hi everyone, our darling girl has now entered the third phase of her recovery.
‘This will be the longest, as she will relearn everything as a result of her injury.
‘She has done really well thus far, and the medical team is very happy with her improvement.
‘Once again, she is so strong and we are proud to be by her side supporting her, guiding her, and, above all, loving her every step of the way.’
Authorities in Dublin said that far-right people with strong anti-immigration sentiments who thought the assailant was a migrant were responsible for the deadly stabbing, which set off riots in the city centre.
In retaliation for the incident, some 500 thugs set fire to a double-decker bus, ransacked stores, and engaged in running skirmishes with riot police.
Images from the Irish capital at the time showed municipal employees clearing the burned-out vehicles and buses in a massive clean-up effort that the Irish government denounced.
Regarding safety and policing in Ireland, the tragedy put pressure on the government and the Garda Commissioner.
In addition, three accusations of assault causing harm and possession and production of a 36-cm kitchen knife are levied against Bouchaker, who does not have a known residence.
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