Lassana Bathily, hero of the Hyper Cacher hostage-taking in January 2015, confides on Europe 1 her relief at having testified at the trial of the 2015 attacks. "It is very difficult but important for us to talk about this. that we lived for 5 years, of what we feel today, "he says.
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His bravery was unanimously hailed the day after the tragedy.
Lassana Bathily, a 24-year-old Franco-Malian worker, was employed in the Hyper Cacher at Porte de Vincennes during the Islamist attack perpetrated by Amedy Coulibaly on January 9, 2015. After hiding customers in a cold room, he had managed to escape by means of a freight elevator and had helped the police to end the deadly hostage-taking.
An act that earned him a decoration and then naturalized French.
Now 30 years old, he has just testified at the trial of the January 2015 attacks.
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"It's very difficult but important for us to talk about what we lived for 5 years, what we feel today", confides Lassana Bathily at the microphone of Europe 1. "It's a relief to talk about what we lived in front of the judge but it is not easy to speak in front of the defendants of the box ".
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