{"id":29873,"date":"2015-01-10T17:51:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T01:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=29873"},"modified":"2015-01-10T17:51:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T01:51:30","slug":"the-paris-muslimkosher-supermarket-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=29873","title":{"rendered":"The Paris Muslim\/Kosher Supermarket Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A man who hid a group of shoppers, one with a baby, in a basement cold storage room at the Hyper Cacher supermarket to shield them from the gunman has been hailed a hero.<\/p>\n

Lassana Bathily,<\/strong> 24, a Muslim shop assistant originally from Mali, in west Africa, was praised for risking his own life to save those led to safety.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they came running down I opened the door of the fridge,\u201d he told French TV. \u201cSeveral came in with me. I turned off the light and the fridge. When I turned off the cold, I put them in. I closed the door. I told them to stay calm and I said \u2018you stay quiet there, I\u2019m going back out\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police originally thought Bathily was a conspirator when he managed to escape through a goods lift. \u201cThey told me, \u2018get down on the ground, hands over your head\u2019. They cuffed me and held me for an hour and a half as if I was with them,\u201d he added. Once freed he was able to give them details of the layout of the store and where people were hiding.<\/p>\n

After the shootout he said that many of the customers he had helped came out and shook his hand. \u201cWhen they got out, they thanked me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Several people took to social media to call for him to be officially recognised for his bravery as news of his actions spread. One tweet said: \u201cA true hero of the hostage crisis in the kosher grocery store yesterday.\u2019<\/p>\n

Another read \u201cLassana Bathily, Muslim worker at\u00a0Paris<\/a> kosher shop, hid people, incl. baby.\u201d A photograph of Bathily, labelled Malian Muslim, has been retweeted around the world as a symbol of the good of some people in the face of terrorism.<\/p>\n

One of those trapped in the cold store Johan Dorre, 36, a father of four, was able to call his uncle and say he was trapped two floors below the ground floor. Another uncle, Jacob Katorza, said: \u201cJohan and the others were terrified that they would be discovered by the terrorists and were forced to huddle together like frightened animals to avoid hypothermia.\u201d<\/p>\n

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