A Muslim in Paris saved as many as 400 or 500 people during the French terror attacks.
In the midst of such horror, Didi says, he had no time to think. Instinct just took over. But today, he is still shaken. He has flashbacks. And trouble sleeping. He doesn’t know if he will be able to return to work at the Bataclan when it reopens.
Didi says the friendship and gratitude of people like Myriam and Emmanuel warm his heart and are helping him to recover.
As for Myriam and Emmanuel, whenever they feel depressed or in despair, they think about Didi. They say he gives them hope for humanity. Myriam says they’ve started a petition to nominate Didi for France’s highest award, the Legion of Honor.
“My life will never be long enough to thank him for what he did,” she says. “And thanks to him, my baby has a mother. We saw the worst things that night, the worst human beings ever. And then we saw the best thing.”