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The French President will present France’s top honour for bravery to three Americans and a British man who tackled a gunman on a high-speed train.

He was identified by counter-terrorism investigators as the gunman armed with an AK-47 assault rifle and a handgun who opened fire on the Amsterdam-Paris train on Friday.

The shooting underlines the difficulties faced by intelligence services in tracking an unprecedented number of suspected extremists.

Fellow friend Anthony Sadler and British passenger Chris Norman pinned the attacker down and stripped him of his weapons. Norman first thought about hiding but then said to himself that the suspect would kill him anyways so he joined in. When the suspect appeared with a gun on...

“So were we”.

“So were we”.

While passengers on Eurostar services between Paris and London must pass through airport-style security before boarding trains, passengers on services between the French capital, Brussels and Amsterdam face no such checks.

Passengers helped apprehend a suspect armed with an automatic firearm and a bladed weapon who injured three people on a high-speed train in northern France, authorities for the government and the railway company said Friday.

United States Air Force serviceman Spencer Stone, National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and their friend Anthony Sadler, spoke to the press on Sunday at the US embassy in Paris.

Three quick-thinking Americans – two of them US servicemen – are being hailed as heroes for preventing an apparent terrorist attack which could have resulted in many causalities aboard a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris. US President Barack Obama congratulated...

Airman First Class Spencer Stone and Oregon National Guard Specialist Alek Skarlatos grew up playing sports and rough-housing with one another and their brothers in California, their parents told NBC affiliate KCRA Saturday.

But he added: “If the identity he has declared is confirmed, he is a 26-year-old man of Moroccan nationality identified by the Spanish authorities to French intelligence services in February 2014 because of his connections to the radical Islamist movement”.

Belgian and French investigators are looking into the man’s motives, although police sources told French broadcaster i-Tele that he has denied having terrorist intentions.

Cazeneuve did not mention any visit to Syria or France, only naming Spain and Belgium as the suspected militant’s places of residence, this year and last.

The suspect, believed to be a man of Moroccan origin who recently lived in Spain and Belgium, was reportedly armed with a slew of weapons: A Kalashnikov assault weapon, nine chargers, a Luger automatic pistol, a 9mm charger and a box cutter.