European weightlifting champion Mel Daluzyan stabbed in Amsterdam

Champion of Europe Mel Daluzyan, known also as Meline Daluzyan, was stabbed in Amsterdam, Facebook user Artur Minasyan wrote in a post, saying that he was there too.

“Two robbers armed with a knife attacked a cashier in an Albert Heijn supermarket today in the centre of Amsterdam. My friend Mel was shopping at that moment.

When he saw what was happening, he rushed to help the cashier and stop the robbers. He succeeded, after a while the police arrived and arrested the robbers.

Unfortunately, before the police arrived, one of the robbers managed to inflict stab wounds to him. Mel is in hospital now, he is stable. Dutch newspapers call heroic his act.

p.s. Mel Daluzyan is two-time European weightlifting champion and record holder, two-time world silver medalist. He has been living in the Netherlands for three years. The transgender athlete has received political asylum in the Netherlands,” Minasyan wrote.