'Backpack hero' says his Catholic faith gave him the strength to fight playground knifeman

The three-year-old British girl who was stabbed by the French playground knifeman on Thursday is out of surgery and watching television, France’s president Emmanuel Macron has confirmed.

During a meeting with rescue workers in Annecy, Macron said of young Ettie Turner: ‘She is watching TV and [the attack] is just a bad memory already.

‘Doctors are optimistic,’ he added, though he said caution was still required.

Meanwhile, the ‘backpack hero’ who chased away Abdelmasih Hanoun, 31, has said his…