A young Muslim man is being hailed as a hero in French newspapers and social media for his actions during Friday’s deadly hostage situation in a Paris supermarket.
Lassana Bathily, an employee at the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Vincennes, helped guide a group of hostages into a downstairs walk-in freezer while gunman Amedy Coulibaly was allegedly preparing to kill them, according to French television station, BFMTV.
Bathily, a “practicing Muslim,” says he entered the freezer with some people, then switched off the freezer and the light and told everyone to stay calm, according to BFMTV.
“I’m the one (who) is going to go out,” he reportedly told them. “I took the elevator and went upstairs.”
“[Coulibaly] asked us to all come upstairs, otherwise he would kill everyone who was downstairs,” Bathily, 24, said to BFMTV.
He exited a freight elevator and ran outside. Bathily, originally from Mali, was apprehended by police, but helped them by describing the location of the freezer.
“When [the hostages] came out, they congratulated me,” Bathily told BFMTV.
The exact number of hostages who remained safe in the freezer is unknown, according to French newspaper L’Express.
Coulibaly was killed in the ensuing shootout with police. Authorities said Coulibaly killed four Jewish hostages.
Rudi Hadad, among those in the freezer, said that a few others went back upstairs during the incident.
Praise was heaped on Bathily via Facebook.
Gwadelle Edom said, “Lass, I have no words to express my pride in you. You put your life in danger to save others. God saw all of it, and his mercy will be without fault. You are blessed in the eyes of humanity.”
A man who claims to be Bathily’s cousin, Abdoul Bathily, posted, “Bravo to my cousin, Lass Bathily, you showed courage yesterday, the rest of the world would not have done it.”
France’s “L’Express” newspaper ran a headline titled, “Lassana Bathily, ‘musulman malien,’ héros de la prise d’otages de Vincennes,” or “Lassana Bathily, ‘Malian Muslim,’ hero of the hostage situation in Vincennes.”
that is really rare, maybe 0.0001 percent
Yes let’s just assume they are all wonderful now.
It is extremely likely that is a gross exaggeration or distortion. CNN is owned by muslims (check their profile), and the owners and their ‘liberal’ journalists have a vested interest in slanting their new stories to suit their own purposes. It’s important for us to question everything we hear these days from the many biased media sources, to step back and see clearly what is really happening in the world – it’s necessary for our survival.
One day they can be nice, next day they can act completely different. You cannot trust them.
I guess these days, doing anything decent is called ‘heroic’. Especially if you’re muslim.
your amazing
I have a list of the last ten “centers of the world” from the book The Holy Temple in Transit by the Rebbe. “From the city of Lubavitch, the movement relocated to Rostov, and then to Petersburg. Lubavitch was then forced out of that country and moved to Latvia, and from Latvia to Poland, and from Poland to the United States. In the United States, Lubavitch went to a number of places, finally arriving at the fixed location of Beit Rabbeinu… for holiness never leaves a place where it has dwelt. On the contrary, it continuously rises to new heights,… Read more »
and we all judge muslims, they have some very nice and respectable people among them. you cannot judge an individual by its nation.
770 is the center of everything. Before 770 the center of the world was were the most shchina rested.
You put to much pressure on yourself. 770 can’t be the center of the world. Before there was 770 what was the center of the world. Some of you need to be realistic and leaves the idealism behind.
It is fair enough to express an opinion – free speech and all that. But opinions/concepts should be based on ‘facts’, otherwise it is mere conjecture.
#15 was expressing the well known chassidic / Jewish concept
that whatever problems we have in the world come from us. See page 819 lekutei sichos, last paragraph. Please reflect on your heritage before making silly remarks. Thanks
may GOD bless you
MAY HE AND HIS FAMILY BE BLESSED FOR HIS GOODNESS!!!
omg
wow there are good people among them
If you think all this is about what goes on in 770, you are truly delusional or just so self absorbed in the global sense,that you can’t “see” a thing.It is called ethnocentric and somehow you have some serious issues to reflect upon.
770 is the pinnacle of the world and how we behave in C.H. and in 770, trickles down and is reflected in the entire world.
Intolerance, and attempting to use force to try to silence religious expression of saying Yechi, by spending millions on endless frivolous court cases, indirectly fuels and feeds similar type aggressive suppression of free expression in France And Throughout the world.
When we fund such leadership, we indirectly fund their persecution of free religious expression of saying Yechi which in turn feeds this week’s outcome in France
Merci Monseur Bathily. And Merci col live for posting this. Not all Jewish news sources have provided this important information and important reminder not to judge a person solely by their religion.
Je suis Juif.
Most Muslims agree to sharia law. Most are radical. However, not all
With Facebook now, it is possible to actually message him and express our appreciation.
Just a big a hero is the young Jewish guy who got shot when he grabbed the gun and tried to save everyone but got killed.the media is overhyping the other story as it shows Muslims can still be human.
The fact that his religion is even a story shows how messed up the muslim world is.
He left via a back entrance and in fact it was a Jewish man who used to work in the store that led the others into the freezer. Just saying before you hail this guy a hero.
I think this is the first such act by a Muslim, in all the terrorist attacks over the years. Please G-d, it should signal a turning point.
Who died to save the little kids life
he unplugged the chiller and then got out. they handcuffed him at first bec they didnt know who he was.
So they stayed in the fridge till they were freed for five hours?
Thanks so much ur the best ur a true hero
We can mamash see the yad of hashem that he saved those he wanted to! We can also see not so many muslims are radical
I just hope that he will not be gun down for revenge, that is Amalek’s MO, his life regrettably will be in constant danger and will need much protection…what a hero, just shows once again we cannot put all people into little neat boxes…may G-d protect him.
thats amazing you cant jude a person by his sect