Lassana Bathily to get French passport after French interior ministry accepts petition to fast-track his request for citizenship.
A attack on a Jewish supermarket in Paris will be given French nationality, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
After the gunman had already killed people during a hostage taking in the store on Friday, 24-year old shop attendant.
Bathily saved the lives of six people whom he took to the supermarket's freezer ? sparing them from the scarring scene that was underway. Four people were killed in the attack on the kosher supermarket before police were finally able to raid the store and kill the attacker ? Amedy Coulibaly.
Among the six lives that Bathily saved was a one-month-old baby. "When they ran downstairs I opened the door to the freezer and I went inside with them," said Bathily. "I turned off the light and I turned off the freezer. I left the freezer and told them to stay calm."
He then escaped to look for help. After initially being suspected of being an accomplice, he was able to tell police what was happening inside the store, where four Jewish hostages were killed before police shot gunman Amedy Coulibaly, a Frenchman of Malian origin.
A petition had been going around France over the last week to give Bathily citizenship.
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