This guy and his friends rescued 554 people from terrorist attacks

On Friday night at the high-speed Thalys trains Paris-Amsterdam 9364, two US military (civil) and a student from the United States, and joined them British tourist defused the unknown, armed with "Kalashnikov". The train traveled 554 people.





The offender seriously wounded two - one with a knife, the other was wounded. The fight, which prevented the tragedy occurred at about 17.45, when the train was still flying on the Belgian territory.





Hearing the shot, the first rushed to the criminal Spencer Stone (Spencer Stone), the US Air Force pilot, a native of Sacramento, says "Le Monde." He was assisted by 22-year-old Alec Skarlatos (Oregon), US National Guard in July returned from Afghanistan. When the offender was already on the floor, he stabbed a knife stationery Spencer Stone. Skarlatos took from the criminal machine.





The fight lasted 40 seconds, until the attacker passed out.

It is not known what was the role of the 23-year-old student Anthony Sadler (Sacramento) - a childhood friend of the two heroes, with whom he went to rest in Europe - but with Skarlatosom and 62-year-old British tourist Chris Norman they were photographed with medals city Arras in his hands. Probably the latter two held offender after he defused.





Skarlatos said: "We are with Spencer ran to him ten meters ... We were very lucky that no one was killed." Then Spencer Stone began to assist the passenger, wounded by a bullet in the throat.





At 17.50, according to the French regional edition of La Voi du Nord, the train stopped at alarm in the area of ​​town Uani (20 km from Lille).

The third injured - French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade - cut his hand, smashing the glass to activate the signal.





The offender was taken into custody and the train went to the nearest big station of Arras. At the station structure searched and passengers briefly placed in the gym adjacent gymnasium and checked all documents.

The bag offender found nine automatic rifle, a pistol and a knife.





"We escaped the terrible drama," - said at Arras station penalty Bernard, the French Interior Minister. And executions, and the Prime Waltz and President Hollande expressed their appreciation to the military. "Shooting (train) #Thalys: my support to victims, thanks to those who intervened. Mobilization of the security forces - a total "- tweeted the French Prime Minister. Press Service Hollande that evening said that the President has already spoken to the Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel. A Belgian authorities reported that the country's security measures.





Criminals who boarded the train in Brussels, allegedly, 26 years old, at the first interrogation, he described himself as Moroccan. According to preliminary information, he was living in Spain and belonged to the "radical Islamist movement," according to Agence France-Presse. His name was in the French dossier S, where people get "prone to radicalization" and "potentially threatening national security." People from the dossier S is not a primary object of attention from the security services, so they are not considered dangerous by far. In the same file, by the way, and was Salih Yasin, who on June 26 killed his boss, and then tried to commit arson in the territory of a chemical plant Air Products in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier (near Lyon).

Then the offender twisted fire, now - the US military.

Passenger, were shot and wounded, flown by helicopter to a hospital in Lille, and the main character, Stone, stabbed in the neck and arm, was taken to hospital in the city of Arras.