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The national medal of recognition for victims of Terrorism was awarded, by presidential decree, to French-Moroccan Mostafa Salhane, who contributed to the arrest of the Algerian terrorist author of the Strasbourg attacks in 2018.
The name of Mostafa Salhane, president of the association of victims of the Strasbourg attacks (AVA), is among more than 200 victims of terrorism to whom the French head of state Emmanuel Macron has decided to award this distinction.
The presidential decree was published in the Official Gazette a few days before the commemoration of the National and European Remembrance Day for Victims of Terrorism, celebrated on March 11.
On Thursday, Macron presided over a ceremony in honor of the victims of terrorism at the Hôtel National des Invalides in Paris, during which Salhane and other representatives of victims' associations exchanged views with the French head of state on a number of issues related to the victims of terrorist attacks in France.
«Discussions with the President of the Republic have also focused on the importance of state support to these victims as well as the need for greater mobilization including civil society and associations working in this area with schools to raise awareness among young people about the danger of radicalization», Salhane told MAP.
The French-Moroccan, who had been taken hostage for about fifteen minutes in his cab by the author of the attack on the Christmas market in Strasbourg, has provided valuable information to investigators who have located his captor, while avoiding a new carnage.
On this occasion, he expressed pride to receive this medal with symbolic character, which constitutes a recognition and participates in the process of psychological reconstruction of the victims.
During this meeting with the French President, Mostafa Salhane, who had received the Medal of the Ministry of the Interior last year, presented to Macron a project to create a European memorial dedicated to the victims of terrorism in Strasbourg. This is a building that would be set up near the European institutions where the portraits and names of French victims of terrorism in France and abroad would be displayed.
On December 11, 2018, the Christmas market in Strasbourg was the target of an attack. For several hours, the city center was cordoned off. The shooter Cherif Chekatt was shot dead after a hunt lasting more than two days. Five people died in the attack and 11 others were injured.
