Mom stops dangerous man outside school

Mom stops dangerous man outside school

We often hear that moms are silent heroines. Being a mother is indeed not easy: It requires a totally selfless, constant and daily effort, which requires tenacity and courage. This woman was brave enough to step in and defend herself in the face of danger. The scene takes place in Brazil, just outside a school. Here is the story of this story relayed by the British newspaper Dailymail.
Katia Da Silva Sastre is a 42-year-old military police officer in Brazil. But it is especially as a mom that she finds herself outside the doors of the Ferreira Master school when a thief points his gun in front of a group of moms.
Reflexes that save
The 21-year-old who was later identified as Elivelton Neves Mereira, walks forward, dressed in a black jacket, facing a group of moms outside the school door. It was not long before he pulled out a gun and pointed it at moms and children. Panic took hold of the group of women faced with this dangerous situation.

That's when Katia Da Silva takes her gun out of her bag and shoots the perpetrator. Hit in the chest, he collapsed on the ground before dropping his weapon. Katia approaches him to move her gun away. The 42-year-old mother may have saved the lives of several children that day.
A heroine

The gesture and the reflex of wanting to defend this group of children earned Katia to be seen as a heroine. According to Dailymail, the governor of São Paulo Márcio França personally rewards the police officer during a ceremony the day after the events.

He talks about Katia's act in a Tweet: "Earlier in the East of Sao Paulo, I honored a very special mom: Corporal Katia Sastre. Her bravery and precision yesterday saved mothers and children outside the doors of a school. "

Katia, who had gone to school for a party organized on the occasion of Mother's Day with her 7-year-old granddaughter, said that she had acted only to defend those present: "I did not know if he was going to shoot the children, the mothers or even the school security officer ", she adds" It is gratifying to have been in the right place at the right time to be able to save lives ". The video, validated by Snopes, captured the event and was based on investigations by two Brazilian media outlets "Folha de Sao Paulo" and the site "Globo".

As for the suspect, he died of his injuries at the hospital, the same day of the attempted robbery.

Armed robbery in France
According to the National Institute for Advanced Studies in Security and Justice (INHESJ), armed robberies in France were down in 2018. In a decade, their number has dropped; from 6,059 in 2009, it decreased by 73% to reach 1,673 in 2018.

However crime is on the rise worryingly, according to Le Point. Between May and July 2019, 248 homicides were recorded, not to mention the various morbid events which recorded no decline.