Seven days later, Russia is still very much aware of the concert hall attack in Moscow that left at least 144 dead and more than 160 hospitalized. However, this Friday was for something positive, with the decoration of a Muslim teenager of only 15 years, Islam Khalilovwhose intervention saved the lives of more than a hundred people.

Khalilov, the son of immigrants from Kyrgyzstan and raised in Russia, He was a part-time cloakroom worker. of the attacked concert hall and was working at the time of the shooting. At that moment, the 15-year-old boy did not give in to fear and managed to indicate the emergency exits to dozens of people who were running away from the scene, as shown in several videos recorded of the moment.

“I understood that If I didn’t react, many people, including me, would lose their lives.“Islam declared to the local media ‘Ruptly’.

For this reason, the Crocus City Council presented him with a Muslim medal this Friday, after which Khalilov said that he believed that “anyone would have done the same” in his place and that he had been taught to always help others as a child.