French construction worker Damien Guerot.Credit: Supplied
“We tried to catch him but he was going down the stairs,then we saw him going down so we followed,tried to maybe throw the bollard at him but we couldn’t,” Guerot told Seven News.
“The eyes was like empty eyes,he wasn’t there,” he said of Cauchi,then praising the police officer who fired the fatal shot.
“She was actually the hero,she did the job,” Guerot said.
A clip uploaded to social media shows the man standing at the top of an escalator,holding the bollard up in the air like a projectile,with its heavy base pointed toward the attacker,and moving toward him. Meanwhile,the attacker was moving up the stairs,clutching a knife. But the five-second clip does not show how the confrontation concluded.