London: Worried Britons are increasingly taking up self-defence
classes with a spike in the number of people signing up for them after
the country was hit by three terrorist attacks within three months.
One school teaching self-defence was quoted by The Sunday Times as saying that it had a ten-fold spike in inquiries in the immediate aftermath of last weekend's terrorist attack on London Bridge in which three terrorists drove a van into pedestrians and then went on a stabbing spree, killing eight persons before being shot dead.
The business is run by Patrice Bonnafoux, a former commando in the French army, who specialises in practical self-defence "rather than the Jack Bauer (from 24, the American thriller) stuff".
"Situations like last Saturday's (at London Bridge) aren't binary. There are always variables, always things you can do. Attackers like these are only interested in easy prey," he said.
Some self-defence courses incorporate first aid, a skill that has also seen an increase in interest since the attacks.
St John Ambulance said footage of passers-by giving first aid to the victims of the Westminster Bridge attack inspired a flood of calls and website visits in the days that followed -- and that pattern was repeated last week.
Source:-Zeenews
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One school teaching self-defence was quoted by The Sunday Times as saying that it had a ten-fold spike in inquiries in the immediate aftermath of last weekend's terrorist attack on London Bridge in which three terrorists drove a van into pedestrians and then went on a stabbing spree, killing eight persons before being shot dead.
The business is run by Patrice Bonnafoux, a former commando in the French army, who specialises in practical self-defence "rather than the Jack Bauer (from 24, the American thriller) stuff".
"Situations like last Saturday's (at London Bridge) aren't binary. There are always variables, always things you can do. Attackers like these are only interested in easy prey," he said.
Some self-defence courses incorporate first aid, a skill that has also seen an increase in interest since the attacks.
St John Ambulance said footage of passers-by giving first aid to the victims of the Westminster Bridge attack inspired a flood of calls and website visits in the days that followed -- and that pattern was repeated last week.
Source:-Zeenews
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