The former American soldier who threw himself on the shooter during the foiled attack on the Thalys in 2015, will not ultimately testify at the trial and returns to the United States after a brief hospitalization in Paris, we learned this Sunday with his lawyer, confirming information from Europe 1.
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Spencer Stone, a former US Air Force soldier, was hospitalized on his arrival at Roissy airport on Wednesday after feeling unwell, Mr. Thibault de Montbrial said Thursday.
On August 21, 2015, Spencer Stone and two American friends with whom he was traveling had mastered, with the help of other passengers, Ayoub El Khazzani, who boarded the Thalys armed with a Kalashnikov and nearly three hundred ammunition.
The three Americans had been celebrated as heroes for having avoided a probable carnage aboard the train, a few months before the Islamist attacks of November 13, and played their own role in a film by Clint Eastwood released in 2018, “
on 3:17 pm for Paris
".
His childhood friends Anthony Sadler and Aleksander Skarlatos (also a former soldier) testified on Thursday and Friday respectively before the court which is trying Ayoub El Khazzani and his three co-defendants.
"
We should have died that day
," Aleksander Skarlatos, 28, summed up in court, describing how they came to control the perpetrator of the attack, which "
changed his life
".
