Hyper Hide: Lassana Bathily will be naturalized French – Le Point

Hyper Hide: Lassana Bathily will be naturalized French – Le Point

Lassana Bathily, the Malian kosher supermarket employee who has helped clients to hide themselves in the cold room for the taking of hostages, Cours de Vincennes in Paris, will be naturalized French Tuesday announced Thursday the Minister of the Interior. In France since 2006, Lassana Bathily, 24, filed in July 2014 an application for naturalization. A “welcome ceremony in the French citizenship” will take place on Tuesday at 18: 30 pm at the ministry, said in a statement Bernard Cazeneuve, who will chair the ceremony. “Following the bravery of Mr. Lassana Bathily, born in 1990 in Bamako (Mali) during the hostage-taking of the store Hide Hyper 9 January, the Interior Minister requested the emergency hearing of the application for naturalization he had filed July 7, 2014, “said Bernard Cazeneuve.

” I have made no secret of the Jews, I hid human beings “

Lassana Bathily employee kosher supermarket, a practicing Muslim, has helped clients panicked Friday to conceal themselves in the cold room. Shortly before 13 hours, Amedy Coulibaly, an offender became a radical Islamist in prison, in coordination with the Kouachi brothers had burst in and opened fire on employees and customers to the Kalashnikov. At the back, a group of people, including an infant, borrows a staircase to get to the cold room. There Lassana Bathily opened the door. “I tell them: Come, come ,” he testified Thursday in AFP. It hides a group in the freezing chamber, remove the refrigeration system. In the cold room, the hostages ask him what to do. “They want to know if there is an emergency exit I tell them that there is a possibility.. The lift” A big wide enough lift to accommodate the entire group. But his fellow prisoners refuse to take the risk of using the elevator, for fear of detection and Lassana out alone. It will t hen help the police to prepare their assault by providing detailed descriptions of the store.

“I have made no secret of the Jews, I hid human beings,” said he told AFP, with humility. Four Jews were killed by the jihadist in the attack and hostage-taking. Hollande had called Sunday to congratulate him. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also paid tribute Sunday night at a ceremony at the synagogue Victory in Paris. On the Internet, a petition asking France to grant her citizenship and the Legion of Honour has collected more than 295,000 signatures

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