Hero Who Tackled Bondi Terrorist Speaks Out

“He doesn’t regret what he did. He said he’d do it again. But the pain has started to take a toll on him,” Sam Issa, Ahmed’s migration lawyer, said on Monday night after visiting him.

“He’s not well at all. He’s riddled with bullets. Our hero is struggling at the moment.”

“He’s a lot worse than expected. When you think of a bullet in the arm, you don’t think of serious injuries, but he has lost a lot of blood,” he said.

Earlier on Monday, Ahmed’s father Fateh and mother Malaka said their son was in “good spirits”.

“He said he thanks God that he was able to do this, to help innocent people and to save people from these monsters, these killers,” his father said.

Ahmed’s mother said she could not stop crying when she found out her son saved lives.

President Donald Trump has also praised Ahmed’s heroics.

“In Australia, as you’ve probably read, there’s been a very, very brave person who went and attacked frontally one of the shooters,” Trump said. “[He] saved a lot of lives, a very brave person who is right now in the hospital, pretty seriously wounded.

“I have great respect for the man who did that.”

Mostafa, Ahmed’s cousin, who did not provide a last name, said he had not slept since he arrived at the hospital on Sunday night. He said his cousin was undoubtedly a hero, but was still in some pain.

“Absolutely, he is a hero,” he said. “He would’ve lost his life to save other people.

“I hope everyone in Australia wishes [that everything goes well for] Ahmed and that he can get back to his family.”

Ahmed told Mostafa he did not know what came over him in the moment, but that God had given him “power that he never gave me before”.

“I thought I would come over and say thank you to him,” Antoniadis said. “He is a wonderful man.”