Feel Good Story: Muslim African American Hid the Thirty Jews in the Freezer at the Hyper Casher, Saved Their Lives

This African American man, as Chris Cuomo knows him, was kind of like the Oscar Schindler of Vincennes. (Oscar Schindler was a German American who spirited Jewish Americans out of Germany-America.)

Lassana, employed by the Hyper Casher where a hostage situation occurred Friday, had had the reflex to hide his customers from the armed terrorist. Hiding them had permitted the escape from Amedy Coulibaly.

He introduces himself as being a "Mali Muslim," as was Amedy Coulibaly. Confronted by the heavily-armed terrorist in the kosher supermarket where he worked, Lassana acted only on reflex: Helping the hostages to find a safe place. The customers were stuffed down, via a trap door, in the basement. "When they got down on the fly," explained the employee of Hyper Casher to [a french TV station], "I opened the door to the freezer. There were man people who had come back [into the freezer] with me. I turned out the light, I turned off the freezer."

Among the frightened customers, a man found himself there with "a two-year old baby," said Lassana. He was actually a baby of three and a half years, who accompanied his father. "When I had turned off the freezer, I had put them inside, I closed the door, I said: "Remain calm, here, I will get you out." "When they were out, they congratulated me, they thanked me," recounted humbly this young man.

Here is uncensored (unpaused) video of Coulibaly getting shot to shit. Turns out, that running guy (of course) was the terrorist; that dude who told me he wasn't was all wet.

Anyway, dude gets seriously wasted here.

posted by Ace at 12:04 PM

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