Clint Eastwood summoned to trial for failed Thalys attack

2020-10-20T08:21:56.324Z

The American director is called as a witness. His film 3:17 pm for Paris, in which the three American passengers who foiled the attack played their own role, will serve as a “reconstruction” at the Assize Court.

The failed Thalys attack to Paris will be judged before the assize race from November 16 to December 18.

On August 21, 2015, Ayoub El-Khazzani came out of the toilets of wagon 12 armed with a Kalashnikov.

Three American passengers on vacation manage to disarm it.

Become heroes, Alek Skarlatos, Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler were immortalized by Clint Eastwood in 2018 in

3:17 pm for Paris,

a film inspired by the attack.

The promo of the time praised a film "

100% true

", where the three heroes, employees of the SNCF, other passengers on the train and the medical team played their own role.

Clint Eastwood at the helm

At the origin of these "

reconstructions

" for the cinema, Clint Eastwood is today part of the list of 41 witnesses and 9 experts summoned to the hearing.

The American director is expected on Monday, November 23, in the afternoon, to review the attitude of Alek Skarlatos, Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler during the scenes reproducing the attempted attack on the Thalys.

The defense of the main accused Ayoub El-Khazzani, the lawyer Me Sarah Mauger-Poliak explained his request for a summons to a witness to France Inter: “

This quote seems all the more important, that the American soldiers, and it is regrettable , did not show up for the re-enactment organized by the judiciary when they spent months replaying the scene in front of the Hollywood projectors

”.