Greek-American Hero Alek Skarlatos Plays Himself in Clint Eastwood's The 15 17 to Paris Movie - News - Greek Gateway - The Top Greek Entertainment Website

ALEK SKARLATOS WENT FROM RECEIVING A HEROIC MEDAL OF HONOUR IN 2015 

TO PLAYING HIMSELF IN CLINT EASTWOOD'S "THE 15:17 TO PARIS" HOLLYWOODMOVIE

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Greek-American Hero Alek Skarlatos Plays Himself in Clint Eastwood's The 15 17 to Paris Movie - News - Greek Gateway - The Top Greek Entertainment Website

IN 2018

HEROISM ON AUGUST 21, 2015 

When Emanuel Skarlatos, a 67 year old Greek immigrant who came to the U.S. at the age offour, picked up the phone on a Friday night in Oregon, on the night of August 21, 2015, it washis son Alek, 23 at the time, calling from a small town in northern France with a wild story aboutbeing onboard a high-speed train heading to Paris with a terrorist.

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Greek-American Hero Alek Skarlatos Plays Himself in Clint Eastwood's The 15 17 to Paris Movie - News - Greek Gateway - The Top Greek Entertainment Website

Greek Immigrant Father, Emanuel Skarlatos and his sons Solon, Peter, and Alek Skarlatos.

Little did Skarlatos know that his son and two childhood friends, who are "so close they arebasically brothers," had in fact foiled a terrorist attack on the train by a 26-year-old Moroccanand radical Islamist identified as Ayoub El Qahzzani.

The radical islamist was known to at least three European intelligence agencies and theEuropean Strategic Intelligence and Security Centre said is probably allied with ISIS.

The three young Americans and a British passenger acted on their own as the train crew

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Greek-American Hero Alek Skarlatos Plays Himself in Clint Eastwood's The 15 17 to Paris Movie - News - Greek Gateway - The Top Greek Entertainment Website

reportedly locked themselves away, ignoring the terrified cries for help from passengers on theFriday evening train from Amsterdam to Paris. French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade told ParisMatchthat the train agents used a special key to barricade themselves in one of the train cars, leavingpassengers to fend for themselves.

Anglade was so furious that he gave a second interview to Le Figaro Saturday saying he andhis fellow passengers were "totally abandoned" by the train crew while the Americans tackledthe shooter.

Alek, 23 at the time, a National Guardsman who just returned from deployment in Afghanistanlast month, told his astonished dad that he and his childhood friend, U.S. Air Force servicemanSpencer Stone, with the help of friend Anthony Sadler, had taken down a terrorist wielding aKalashnikov rifle, a handgun, a boxcutter and a backpack full of ammo on the train.

Incredible video footage of the incident, apparently taken from Sadler's phone, shows thesuspect hogtied on his stomach, moaning, along with Stone's bloody head, knifed in the attack.The windows around them are blood-stained.

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Greek-American Hero Alek Skarlatos Plays Himself in Clint Eastwood's The 15 17 to Paris Movie - News - Greek Gateway - The Top Greek Entertainment Website

"I got the facts about what happened from Alek," Skarlatos told the Daily Beast.

"They're snoozing on the train and they hear someone reloading an AK-47. They made asplit-second decision to bumrush him. Spencer went first because he's the biggest guy and onlyone person could fit down the aisle at a time. He tackled the guy and Alek jumped him second.The guy took out a boxcutter and began slicing Spencer. Alek grabbed his Kalashnikov andbeat him unconscious with the butt end of it. Then their other friend Anthony helped hogtie theguy up and Alek went through the train with the AK-47 checking for other terrorists."

- Greek Immigrant Dad, Emanuel Skarlatos on his heroic son Alek Skarlatos

CLINT EASTWOOD'S MOVIE "THE 15:17 TO PARIS"

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Greek-American Hero Alek Skarlatos Plays Himself in Clint Eastwood's The 15 17 to Paris Movie - News - Greek Gateway - The Top Greek Entertainment Website

Alek Skarlatos plays himself in"The 15:17 to Paris" in Theatres on Feb, 9, 2018The Greek-American hero, Alek Skarlatos, will play himself in Clint Eastwood's Movie "The15:17 to Paris" along with US Air Force friends Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler.

SEE "THE 15:17 TO PARIS" MOVIE TRAILER STARRING ALEK SKARLATOS AND THEREAL HEROES.

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