Suspected gunman in France train attack denies charges

A 26-year-old Moroccan man, believed to have links to Islamist radicals, has been taken into custody. He kept pulling more weapons left and right. “So were we”. During the struggle Khazzani slashed Stone in the neck and hand with a box cutter. He appeared at the news conference with his left arm in a sling.

Khazzani has denied any intention of waging a jihadist attack, saying he had merely stumbled upon a weapons stash and decided to use it to rob passengers, according to Sophie David, a lawyer assigned to his case. He noted that El-Khazzani was armed with eight magazines of bullets.

“A man’s throat had been slit”, Sadler said.

Despite the injuries, Stone managed to render the gunman unconscious with a chokehold.

A source close to the investigation said two people were being treated at a hospital in Lille.

Van Sypt said it was not yet known if El Khazzani had an accomplice or was acting alone, and authorities in Belgium were probing “if there is possibly a wider framework involved”. Mooligan wrested the rifle away from the attacker, The Telegraph reported.

“He pulled out a handgun”. El-Khazzani then began slashing with a box cutter.

A 28-year-old French passenger spotted the gunman as he exited a toilet cubicle and tried to disarm him, but Khazzani slipped away and fired several shots.

Norman said he heard “glass breaking and then saw somebody running down the aisle to the front of the train”.

“Actions like this clearly illustrate the courage and commitment our young men and women have all the time, whether they are on duty or on leave”, Breedlove said in a statement released by the Pentagon.

“In the beginning it was basically just gut instinct”, Skarlatos said.

Stone said he aided a passenger whose neck was “squirting” blood. “We eventually got him under control”. He thanked the French doctors, police officers and others.

Mr Stone and Mr Skarlatos, who had returned from a deployment in Afghanistan in July, grabbed the man while Mr Sadler and Mr Norman joined them to help. It all felt “pretty insane”, he said, adding that he “never thought I would be here in this position”.

Sadler said the men were only in that train vehicle, which was first class, because the Wi-Fi had been shaky in the auto they initially Saturday They had bought first-class tickets, so they chose to hunt down their seats. Their bravery prevented a potential massacre, saving the lives of more than 550 passengers. And he jumped up and I followed behind him by about three seconds.

“Alek hit me and said “let’s go”.

President Hollande’s office said he would receive the passengers who subdued the gunman in the coming days.

“Spencer ran a good ten meters to get to the guy and we didn’t know that his gun not working or anything like that, Spencer just ran anyway and if anybody would have gotten shot it would have been Spencer for sure and we’re very lucky that nobody got killed, especially Spencer”.

Three people were injured before the shooter was taken down.