Three US citizens and a Briton who on Friday helped disarm a gunman on a train from Amsterdam to Paris, are to be awarded France's highest honour. "Dude, I tried to shoot him," one man can be heard saying in video footage showing the moments after a gunman was overpowered on a train from Amsterdam to Paris.
Spencer Stone (23) Antony Sadler (23) Alek Skarlatos (22) and Chris Norman (62) are to meet French President Francois Hollande today ( Monday Aug 24) who will present them with the Legion d'Honneur in recognition of their bravery. The men, two of whom were American servicemen, have played down their actions saying they just reacted on instinct. “ I didn’t really have much of a state of awareness, it wasn’t really a conscious decision, we just kind of acted, there was not much thinking going on, at least on my end,” said Aleksander Skarlatos who is a National Guard reservist. euronews
