Accused train gunman watched jihadi video before attack, prosecutor says

“It makes no sense”, he said of his son, who lived with him in Algeciras until he left for France in 2014. “He seemed to be a good person, no problems, and behavior beyond reproach”, Lycamobile chief Alain Jochimek told Reuters.

The Paris prosecutor planned a news conference Tuesday afternoon. A fourth man, a Briton, helped tie up the gunman. The U.S. ambassador to France, Jane Hartley, said he was “doing pretty well”.

Chris Norman, a 62-year-old British IT consultant who lives in France, was also awarded the honour. Another man who tried to stop him – a French-American named Mark Moogalian – remained hospitalized Tuesday with a gunshot wound. Then, Isabelle Risacher Moogalian said, she ducked behind some seats as he lunged to grab the assault rifle from the gunman’s hands.

Molins also raised suspicions about how Khazzani was able to afford a 149-euro ($A241.32) first class train ticket, given his claims to be sleeping rough in Brussels. French security sources said he went to Berlin airport for a flight to Istanbul on May 10 this year.

In May this year, he came to the intelligence services’ attention once more when German authorities warned that he had boarded a plane for Turkey, seen as a possible sign that he travelled to war-torn Syria. At the ceremony, the trio of Americans, friends since childhood, dressed modestly in polo shirts and khakis. She said he’d told her he had spent the past six months traveling among Belgium, Germany and Austria, as well as France and Andorra.

So what do you do when a trip on a high-speed train in Europe suddenly turns you and your buddies into global heroes?

“There were over 500 passengers on that train”.

The train contained more than 500 passengers, and El-Khazzani was armed with a Kalashnikov, a Luger pistol and 300 bullets.

“We want to have a celebration”, Nelsen said. Sadler said the gunman never said a word before launching his attack.

French President Francois Hollande pinned his country’s highest award, the Legion d’Honneur, saying they “gave a lesson in courage”.

But Sadler, 23, dismissed suggestions that he was not trying to kill anyone.

“The only terrorism he is guilty of is terrorism for bread, he doesn’t have enough money to feed himself properly”. “Very proud because there was a lot of people on the train and if they hadn’t stepped up, there could have been a lot of death”, said Heidi Hansen, Alek’s mother.

Investigators in Brussels searched two buildings in the Molenbeek-Saint-Jean neighbourhood where the suspect may have stayed, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.

The train incident has highlighted growing difficulties in protecting public spaces from individual attackers.