The US heroes who tackled an ISIS gunman on a train - inspiring the hit movie 'The 15:17 To Paris' - prevented a 'slaughter', a Paris court heard today. Pictured: A courtroom sketch of Moroccan gunman Ayoub El Khazzani from 2016. He was then tackled afresh and disarmed by the two US soldiers - Spencer Stone and Alek Skarlatos - who heard the commotion from a neighbouring carriage. The man considered the likely mastermind of those attacks, Abdel Hamid Abaaoud, was the behind-the-scenes force of the train attack, planned in Syria, according to the prosecution. El Khazzani 'knowingly followed Abaaoud, but it's been years since he was in a jihadi mindset', his lawyer Sarah Mauger-Poliak said in a phone interview.

Source: Daily Mail November 16, 2020 15:14 UTC