Friday, August 21
• 5:50 p.m. • A Moroccan of 26, armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle with nine chargers, automatic Luger pistol and a knife, opened fire in the high-speed train Thalys 9364 linking Amsterdam to Paris shortly after the convoy’s passage France in Oignies (Pas-de-Calais).
A first traveler, French 28-year employee in a bank in the Netherlands, tries to disarm the man when it comes out of the toilet. The assailant managed to escape, fires several shots. A passenger fifty years, Franco-American nationality, is reached. Three American passengers on vacation, including two soldiers, Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone, helped by a Briton Chris Norman and an anonymous French manage to disarm the aggressor and to master it.
In the fight, Spencer Stone injured shots cutter that does not stop to rescue the passenger who was hit in the throat by a shot.
The actor Jean-Hugues Anglade, present on the train, was slightly injured while attempting to activate the alarm. He accused the Thalys agents have locked in a car and refusing to open to passengers who sought their help.
• Between 6:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. • The aggressor mounted in Brussels, was arrested in Arras station (Pas-de-Calais) to which was diverted Thalys. Supported in a nearby gym, the 554 passengers on the train have their identities checked and their luggage searched before being sent to Paris at night. Technical and scientific police found only one socket.
• 7:30 p.m. • Announcement of departure for Arras the Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.
• 20.45 • Press Francois Hollande ensuring that “everything is done to shed light” on attack . The Elysee precisely one hour after Mr. Holland and Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel “agreed” on the phone “closely cooperate” in the investigation.
• 8:50 p.m. • The anti-terrorist section of the Paris prosecutor took up the investigation.
• 9:21 p.m. • The French Prime Minister Manuel Valls expressed his “gratitude” to those who intervened to control the assailant.
• 9:54 p.m. • Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel denounced a “terrorist attack” and provides for a strengthening of measures Security
Saturday, August 22
• 1:35 • US President Barack Obama welcomed the “heroic” actions of two American soldiers.
• 11:14 • Belgian federal prosecutor opened an investigation “on the basis of the anti-terrorism law” because “the suspect boarded the train in Brussels.”
• 11:28 • A police source said the suspect, transferred early in the morning in the premises of counterterrorism in Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine) denies being a terrorist, a version that does not take with the state investigations.
• 12:30 • Bernard Cazeneuve said the suspect is suspected of belonging to the “radical Islamist” but he says that the identity has yet to be formally established. He resided in 2014 in Spain and 2015 in Belgium.
• 4 p.m. • The Belgian government decided to tighten security measures in trains and stations in the country .
• 5:00 p.m. • Manuel Valls announced that SNCF will set up a “national number for reporting abnormal situations “in trains and stations.
• 7 p.m. • Spencer Stone leaves the clinic where he Lille was successfully operated.
• 7:30 p.m. • The suspect is formally identified. This is Ayoub El Khazzani, reported in February 2014 by the Spanish services to their French counterparts to belong to the radical Islamist movement. Located in Berlin May 10, 2015, he would have sailed to Turkey and Syria before returning to France.
• 8:00 p.m. • The Elysee announced that Francois Hollande will receive Monday at 9am “US citizens, French and British “that have prevented carnage.
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