“The guy had a lot of ammo. His intentions were pretty clear,” said American Alek Skarlatos, Fellow Americans Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler, and a British man, Chris Norman heard a gunshot on Friday and acted on instinct.
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“It looked like he just kept pulling more weapons left and right,” (Stone)
“He never said a word … we saw him cocking the AK-47, so at that time it was either do something or die. Hiding or sitting back is not going to accomplish anything.” (Sadler).
Today these three spoke at press conference at the U.S. Ambassador to Paris’ home.
There are different explanations about the motivations behind the gunman’s attack.
According to French Interior Minister Brenard Cazeneuve, Moroccan Ayoub El Khazzani might have links to radical Islam. His lawyer said he that he had just wanted to rob the train.
Sadler goes with the Radical Islamist idea, “It doesn’t take eight magazines to rob a train.The gunman would have been successful if my friend Spencer hadn’t gotten up.”
Stone had been asleep when the gunshot was fired, Skalartos hit him on the shoulder. “let’s go.”
Stone said that the gun looked jammed.
Both Stone and Skalartos have military training, but don’t credit it as their impetus for intervening.
“In the beginning, it was basically just gut instinct,” Skarlatos said. “We just kind of acted. There wasn’t much thinking going on.”