There's a page-three type story that I viewed this morning via N-TV here in Germany. It won't be discussed much and most Germans have zero memory of the event.
Back in August of 2015....there was this Muslim guy who boarded a train in Brussels....heading toward Paris.
The guy was armed with a carpet knife, a pistol and a automatic rifle. The pistol and rifle were illegal procured.
His intention? To kill as many passengers on the train as possible. You can look at the 200-odd people onboard, and figure that as a minimum....at least sixty should have died that day on the train.
Well....things went wrong.
The gun jammed (he didn't really know how to unjam it). Maybe it was a cheap weapon or just bad luck.
Then as this moment occurred....three American guys (military background) went into action and took the guy down. There's probably a sixty-second period where where lives hung in the balance, and they weren't going to let this guy do his thing.
In the end....no one died on this train (lot of blood but no deaths).
The court case finally ended this week (taking five years). The Moroccan guy (31 years old) is going off for 'life'. With the danger intent, I kinda doubt that they will ever find a reason to release the guy.
It did take an exceptional long period to run this case, and I'm guessing that a mental review board did the five-star mental exam, but could not find anything crazy about the guy.
The amount of luck in this episode? Having the three Americans in that cabin....having the gun to jam....having this guy with minimum training...the list goes on and on. It is one of those odd things where you needed some element of luck to save 200-odd people.
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