Heroes honoured for halting train attack

France awards Legion d’honneur as father denies gunman is terrorist.

The father of a suspected Islamist militant gunman overpowered by passengers on a high-speed train in France was quoted as saying he could not believe his son was a terrorist.

The Spanish newspaper El Mundo spoke to Mohammed el Khazzani, father of Ayoub el Khazzani who was arrested after attacking passengers on the train on Friday, at his home in Algeciras, southern Spain.