At the trial of the attack of the foiled Thalys attack in August 2015, actor Jean-Hugues Anglade, known in particular for his role in the series "Braquo", told the bar this moment of anguish.

Present on the train with his wife and children, he was "shocked" by the attitude of the train staff.  

TESTIMONY

"We stayed there, alone, totally abandoned."

The actor Jean-Hugues Anglade, who was in the Thalys Amsterdam-Paris during the foiled attack of August 2015, told Monday during the trial how he and his family found themselves "cornered in a mousetrap" while 'they were trying to run away from the shooter.

The actor, who returned from the weekend with his partner and his 13 and 14-year-old children, was in the wagon next to the one where Ayoub El Khazzani rode, equipped with a Kalashnikov and nearly 300 ammunition.

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"Alone, abandoned, helpless"

In the Thalys, the actor known in particular for his role in

La Reine Margot 

explains at the helm that he suddenly saw a controller and two catering hostesses disembark in his car running and yelling in English: "He's shooting people".

The three employees rush into the "van", a room that locks from the inside, located at the front of the car.

Taken with fear, the actor and other passengers rush there, asking that the door be opened to them.

"They didn't want to. We could at least have made the children safe. It shocked me a lot," said Jean-Hugues Anglade, who had sharply criticized Thalys staff in the media after the attack.

"We stayed there, alone, abandoned, powerless. Hence my discontent. We were cornered as in a mousetrap."

"To imagine dying under the bullets of a Kalashnikov is quite unusual, I prefer to die on stage" he also launched. 

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"We thought it was carnage"

On the other side of the door of the "van", the controller had already explained his gesture Thursday, at the special assize court.

“We thought it was carnage. I was no longer myself, I was like an animal seeking to flee its predator,” he testified.

Still, the man still protected five people he got off the train in an emergency, as soon as possible.

For his part, Jean-Hugues Anglade had escaped this traumatic experience unscathed, except for a slight injury to his hand after breaking a window protecting an alarm button.