ABOUT THAT STABBING---HEROIC TOURIST-------UPDATED: SYRIAN MIGRANT ARRESTED AFTER BEING PREVIOUSLY LET GO

UPDATED: SYRIAN MIGRANT ARRESTED AFTER BEING PREVIOUSLY LET GO; SEE MORE AT  Syrian migrant arrested for brutal attack on American model John Rudat — after cops previously let him go

The heroic American tourist who was stabbed while protecting two women being violently assaulted on a tram in Germany has been identified as a part-time model from upstate New York who was left with gruesome facial injuries.

John Rudat, 21, was traveling in the city of Dresden early Sunday when he stepped in as the women were being attacked by a pair of men, according to an online fundraiser set up by his brother’s girlfriend Molly.

The part-time model — who is also a newly qualified paramedic — was hospitalized with knife wounds to his face after bravely intervening....one of Rudat’s suspected attackers, a 21-year-old Syrian national, was arrested on suspicion of beating up Rudat before his accomplice came back and stabbed the EMT. MORE AT Heroic American tourist brutally stabbed while protecting two women in Germany is a model from Upstate NY

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