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Ireland. Knife attack on chaplain: Case filed against teenager

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After the attack A teenager who was stabbed by an Irish Army chaplain in Galway (west of Ireland) on Thursday was arrested at the scene and taken into police custody and will appear in court later Saturday afternoon, police said in a statement.

“Attack motivated by terrorism”?

The day before, she said she was considering terrorism for this knife attack on Paul Murphy, a 50-year-old chaplain who suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

The teenager, whose age was not released, was detained by soldiers before his arrest. He was then “charged and will appear at Galway Magistrates Court today at 2pm,” police said on Saturday morning. “Investigations are ongoing,” she added, after noting on Friday that one of the lines of inquiry would include “determining whether this attack was motivated by terrorism.”

According to the newspaper The Irish TimesCiting police sources, the suspect, a 16-year-old Irishman, is said to have been radicalized on the internet in recent months. Still according to the paper, the chaplain arrived in his car in front of the barracks on Thursday evening and saw the teenager coming his way and rolled down the window. He then stabbed him several times with a hidden knife.

“I'm doing well”

The barracks guards fired five warning shots “in accordance with armed forces protection protocols” and used batons to control the attacker, the army said in a press release.

Chaplain Paul Murphy, who was hospitalized with serious injuries, thanked the public for their support in a message posted on Facebook on Friday. “My friends, I thank you for your prayers,” he wrote. “I am fine and I am waiting for an operation. Everything will be fine,” he added.

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