Muslim who saved Jews during Paris supermarket attack honoured in New York

Hailed as “the Paris kosher supermarket hero,” Lassana Bathily, a Muslim employee who saved 15 French Jews during a terrorist attack, was honoured in New York on Friday.

Bathily was flown to New York to be honoured at the annual scholarship dinner of the NYPD Muslim Officers Society, the New York Daily News reported.

Prsenting him with an official city proclamation honouring him for his actions in the supermarket attack in Paris on January 9,  New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called Bathily a ‘real hero.’ (NYT)