'Hero' Muslim employee who saved lives at Kosher supermarket in Paris gets citizenship by France

How little impact you make in people lives can boomerang into great things for you.

 

 Muslim kosher supermarket employee who saved several shoppers lives during the Paris attack has been granted French citizenship.

 

Lassana Bathily, 24, was praised for his 'courage and heroism' by Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve during a ceremony in the presence of Prime Minister Manuel Valls. When gunman Amedy Coulibaly entered the shop, Lassana Bathily turned off the freezer and hid shoppers inside before sneaking out and helping police free the hostages.

Mr Cazeneuve said Mali-born Bathily's 'act of humanity has become a symbol of an Islam of peace and tolerance.

 

Hopefully he does not become a target of extremist muslims.