Now the French government is helping out Bathilyby making him a citizen.
The Malian native’s citizenship application, which he filed in July 2014, will be expedited, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced on Thursday. Cazeneuve will conduct Bathily’s citizenship ceremony himself on January 20.
This event will add to what has been an emotional few weeks for Bathily, starting with his heroic actions last Friday, after a gunman burst in while he was working at the kosher Hyper Cacher grocery store, near Paris’ Porte de Vincennes.
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Another person wrote, “I have no words to express my pride in you. You put your life in danger to save others. God saw all of it, and his mercy will be without fault. You are blessed in the eyes of humanity.”
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CNN’s Alanne Orjoux contributed to this report.
