Bondi Junction stabbing: Albanese offers citizenship to French man who confronted attacker with bollard

Damien Guerot praised for ‘extraordinary bravery’ after CCTV footage showed him confronting Joel Cauchi

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The Australian prime minister has offered a French citizen who confronted the Bondi Junction attacker with a bollard to stay in Australia as long as he likes and even become a citizen.

French construction worker Damien Guerot was dubbed “bollard man” after CCTV footage showed him confronting Joel Cauchi on an escalator in Westfield Bondi Junction, where Cauchi allegedly fatally stabbed six people on Saturday before he was shot dead by police.