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As the train passed through Belgium, the three subdued the gunman, tackling him in the train aisle, grabbing his rifle and tying him up.

Before he assembled his weapon in the toilet compartment between two train cars on Friday, El Khazzani sat on the train – bound for Paris from Amsterdam – listening on his phone to a YouTube file of “an individual calling his followers to combat and urging them...

Air Drive Chief of Employees Gen. Mark A. Welsh informed reporters that if French authorities conclude the assault was a terrorist occasion, officers might contemplate awarding Stone the Purple Coronary heart.

The terrorist suspect also carried a a 9mm handgun, a box-cutter and a bottle of petrol. “You behaved as soldiers but also as responsible men”.

He said he had stumbled upon a weapons stash in a park in Belgium where he sometimes slept rough and decided to use it to rob passengers, according to Sophie David, a lawyer who was temporarily assigned to his case. “So this Legion d’Honneur is representative of your...

“He seemed like he was ready to fight to the end”. “So were we”.

The French-American academic, 51, was in a hospital recovering from a gunshot wound.

The three American heroes who helped to prevent a heavily armed man from killing train passengers are now recipients of France’s highest honor.

“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.

Sadler is one of the three American men who became instant heroes on Friday when they tackled and subdued a gunman on a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris.

The gunman has been identified as 26-year-old Moroccan Ayoub El-Khazzani and is being questioned by French counterterrorism police outside Paris.

Fighting a terrorist was probably the last thing student Anthony Sadler, Air Force serviceman Spencer Stone and Alek Skarlatos, a National Guardsman had on their minds as traveled through Europe. He added that he acted out of “survival – and for my friends and...

‘My friend yells, ‘Get him!’ . The men tackled and subdued him and he was taken into custody in France.

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”.