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An Irish man came to the rescue of a lady in France who was being strangled, but was dealt a blow by authorities.

Eoin Campbell was devastated when French authorities denied him compensation after he lost €6,000 in earnings over an injury sustained in the scuffle.

“I had to give him a terrible beating. He just wouldn't let go. He was killing her ,” the lawyer and academic tells us of the moment he landed a barrage of punches on a man who was strangling a woman on a French street , according to the Irish Mirror . View 3 Images

"The matter put me in the red, and I think that the state should take me back to the black,” he says.

Mr Campbell, 43, was speaking to us after a recent decision by a French state body to refuse him compensation for his ordeal in November 20

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