He showed unfailing courage.
Abderahmane Cissé, 45, neutralized the attacker at Lyon station who left three people injured on Saturday morning.
At 7:30 a.m., the main suspect, Kassogue S., stabbed a man in the abdomen and two hammer blows to the head.
Sunday evening, his vital prognosis was
“still engaged”
, according to the public prosecutor.
Two other people were affected, one of them was released from hospital on Saturday evening.
At the time of the attack, security guard Abderahmane Cissé was making his rounds in hall 3 of the station.
“It was very calm.
There, suddenly, I hear screams,
he confides in the columns of Le
Parisien
.
I immediately start running in that direction.
First I see a gentleman with a knife in his hand.
A little further on, there is a person on the ground.
She is bleeding, she is holding her abdomen.
»
In his murderous impulse, the assailant attacks two other passers-by under the eyes of Abderahmane, an expert in combat sports.
Without hesitation, the 110 kilo colossus throws itself on Kassogue S.
“I don’t think at all.
My priority is to go in there and disarm him.
It’s the only thing I think about.”
“He doesn’t drop the gun”
But the attacker resists.
“He doesn’t drop the gun.
I try to twist his wrist but he still tries to punch the kid.
That's when I hear the blade fall.
Another older gentleman immediately brushes him aside.
During this time, I grabbed the man's arms and put myself on top of him while calling for reinforcements,”
recalls Abderahmane Cissé who
has been “reflecting”
on what happened.
Thanks to his intervention, Kassogue S., 32, was arrested and placed in police custody in Paris.
Before investigators, the suspect admitted his intention to
“kill people”
but his motive remains unclear.
The Malian, unknown to the police and legally entered France thanks to a residence permit obtained in 2019 in Italy, also highlighted his psychiatric disorders.
Investigators found medication and an appointment ticket for a consultation at Turin hospital, where he would have already been interned.