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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ashifa Kassam in Madrid

Skateboard hero of 2017 London Bridge attack proposed for sainthood

Ignacio Echeverría smiling.
Ignacio Echeverría was fatally stabbed while using his skateboard to fend off the attackers and protect others. Photograph: AP

Five years after Ignacio Echeverría used his skateboard to take on the London Bridge attackers, the Catholic church in Madrid has joined forces with his family in an effort to have the Spanish “skateboard hero” recognised as a saint.

Echeverría, a Spanish national living in London, was among the eight people killed in 2017 when three terrorists rammed into pedestrians in a hired van before attacking passersby in the Borough Market area with 12in knives.

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