Lassana bathily biography

Lassana Bathilly is Malian, black and Muslim, and lives and works in Paris.
Bathily's decisive actions saved the lives of fifteen people that day.
Lassana Bathily is born in 1990 in the west of Mali, in the small village of Samba Dramané.

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Otage de Coulibaly, il réussit à s’enfuir de l’Hyper Cacher. D’abord, présumé terroriste par les hommes du RAID, il va ensuite les aider. Le soir même, il se retrouve élu héros par la presse française, puis internationale. Lui, le musulman, qui a sauvé des Juifs ! Depuis, gouvernements français, malien, israélien, mais aussi Barack Obama, le grand Rabbin de France, la fondation Wiesenthal, les polices de New York et Los Angeles ne cessent de chanter ce « Juste », de le citer comme référence et citoyen modèle.

Naturalisé français par François Hollande peu après les attentats, il travaille désormais au service des sports de la mairie de Paris. Il joue toujours au foot, vote pour la première fois et répond à de multiples sollicitations d’une société en manque d’exemples de héros. Invité à travers le monde, il est devenu le représentant idéalisé d’une intégration réussie et de la fraternité entre juifs, musulmans et chrétiens.

Découvrez le portrait d’un jeune Malien, à travers les témoignages de ses parents, amis, professeurs, parrain républicain, ex directeur de foyer&#

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France’s Muslim Malian hero who saved lives in kosher shop attack

Plougasnou, France – Nearly six years after saving customers’ lives during the deadly attack at the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris, Lassana Bathily still refuses to call himself a hero.

“It’s my modesty,” he says.

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On January 9, 2015, the then 24-year-old was working in the stockroom of the supermarket when a gunman stormed in.

“You people are the two things I hate most in this world,” the supermarket attacker, Amedy Coulibaly, told shoppers before taking them hostage. “You are Jewish and French.”

Bathily, a Muslim employee, quickly directed about 15 shoppers into the basement where he hid them in a cold-storage room during the four-hour siege.

In the attack, four people were killed, five including the gunman.

Two days earlier, the

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Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege

2015 Islamist terrorist attack in Paris

For broader coverage of this topic, see January 2015 Île-de-France attacks.

On 9 January 2015, Amedy Coulibaly, armed with a submachine gun, an assault rifle, and two Tokarev pistols, entered and attacked a Hypercacher kosher supermarket in Porte de Vincennes in Paris, France. There, Coulibaly murdered four Jewish hostages and held fifteen other hostages during a siege in which he demanded that the perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting, the Kouachi brothers, not be harmed. The siege ended when police stormed the supermarket, killing Coulibaly. The Charlie Hebdo shooting had taken place just days earlier, as did the Dammartin-en-Goële hostage crisis, in which the two Charlie Hebdo gunmen were cornered.