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Radio France Internationale
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Alison Hird with RFI

'I saved human beings', says Muslim man who hid Jews in Paris siege

"We are all Jewish" reads a sign among the flowers and messages in memory of the four shot dead in the kosher supermarket terror attacks on 9 January, 2015. REUTERS/Charles Platiau

France is marking 10 years since a terror attack at a Paris kosher supermarket left four Jewish people and their Islamist assailant dead. The majority of hostages survived thanks to the quick thinking of a Muslim employee from Mali who helped police end the siege. Lassana Bathily sat down with RFI to recall the day he became an accidental hero.

Bathily was 24 and stacking shelves when gunman Amedy Coulibaly stormed the Hypercacher store at Porte de Vincennes on 9 January 2015, two days after the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

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