A man has been charged in connection with a knife attack in Dublin at the weekend.
Emergency services rushed to the Oxmantown road area of Stoneybatter on Sunday afternoon after a number of men had been attacked.
Gabriel Fereira Motta Valladeres (29) with an address at Broadstone Avenue appeared before Dublin District Court this morning charged with four offences.
He was charged with two counts of assault causing harm along with possession of a box-cutting knife and possession of scissors under the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act.
He is accused of assaulting one man on Oxmanstown Road in Dublin 7 and assaulting another man on nearby Niall Street on Sunday 9 February.
The Brazilian national is also accused of having scissors which had a blade or was sharply pointed on Manor Place.
On the same date on Murtagh Road, he is charged with having a box-cutter knife which had a blade or was sharply pointed.
The accused wept throughout the court appearance.
Detective Garda David Chapman from Bridewell Garda Station gave evidence of the arrest, charge and caution.
When the charges were put to him he replied “no comment” to the first charge and when the second charge was put to him he replied “I was afraid to be killed”.
His solicitor, Michael French, said he was not making a bail application today but asked for immediate medical attention for his client.
Judge Deirdre Clancy ordered that he receive medical attention and remanded him in custody to appear before Cloverhill District Court via video link on 18 February.
A bail application is expected to be made then.