Muslim immigrant from Mali hailed for life-saving courage during Paris siege at kosher market
Source: Fox News
PARIS At a kosher supermarket in Paris, a quick-thinking Muslim employee hides several Jewish shoppers in the basement before sneaking out to brief police on the hostage-taker upstairs. In the town of Dammartin-en-Goele, a poker-faced businessman fools a pair of gunmen into believing they're alone in the building before being allowed to leave unharmed.
In the days after the bloody end of twin French hostage crises Friday, stories of life-saving courage are beginning to filter out. One of the most striking is the story of Lassana Bathily, a young immigrant from Mali who literally provided police with the key to ending the hostage crisis at the supermarket.
Bathily was in the store's underground stockroom when gunman Amedy Coulibaly burst in upstairs, according to accounts given to French media and to a friend of Bathily's who spoke to The Associated Press. Bathily turned off the stockroom's freezer and hid a group of frightened shoppers inside before sneaking out through a fire escape to speak to police. Initially confused for the attacker, he was forced to the ground and handcuffed.
Once police realized their mistake, he provided them with the key they needed to open the supermarket's metal blinds and mount their assault.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/01/11/muslim-immigrant-from-mali-hailed-for-life-saving-courage-during-paris-siege-at/
I'm amazed FOX even covered this. Though I expect their typical audience to ignore it completely.
But a huge salute to that guy. He's a real hero and it's great he's getting the recognition he deserves.
elleng
(131,414 posts)Crowman1979
(3,844 posts)Doesn't matter if it's the fundie Muslims who attacked Charlie, the fundie Christians in the USA wanting to start up the crusades because of it, the fundie Jews justifying the IDF's war crimes, and the Hindu fundies for not solving the endemic poverty within India.
Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)The same moral equivalence bs "all fundies" just to show how fair your post is.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)mountain grammy
(26,676 posts)The irony of a Muslim employee of a kosher grocery shouldn't be lost in the noise of the outrage. We're all in this together and we hopefully will do more to watch out for each other.
BumRushDaShow
(130,043 posts)I don't even need to comment here. Think about it. It's deep.