According to sources, the film also stars Moogalian\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s wife, Isabelle Risacher Moogalian, who was also on board that day.<\/p>\n
During the high-speed train ride on Aug. 21, 2015, Moogalian tackled<\/a> gunman El-Khazzani, who was armed with an AK-47 assault rifle. It was reported that Moogalian instinctively acted to protect his wife Isabella and managed to take the assault rifle away from El-Khazzani. The assailant managed to then draw another gun and shoot Moogalian in the neck.<\/p>\n Moogalian, who is from Midlothian, Va. and teaches English at Paris-Sorbonne University, was quickly rushed to a hospital where he was rehabilitated and eventually made a full recovery from his injuries.<\/p>\n In Sept. 2015, less than a month after the incident, Moogalian was awarded<\/a> the Legion d\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7Honneur, France\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s highest honor for bravery, by then French President Francois Hollande at the \u0569\u0083\u0549\u0080\u055blys\u0569\u0083\u0539.e Palace.<\/p>\n Written by Dorothy Blyskal, \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093The 15:17 to Paris\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d is based on the autobiography The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Soldiers<\/em> by Jeffrey E. Stern, Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler, and Alek Skarlatos. Stone, Sadler, and Skarlatos\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009dthe American passengers who helped stop the attack by tackling the attacker\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009dalso star in the film as themselves.<\/p>\n The film is scheduled to be released on Feb. 9 by Warner Bros. Pictures.<\/p>\n armenianweekly.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to sources, the film also stars Moogalian\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s wife, Isabelle Risacher Moogalian, who was also on board that day. During the high-speed train ride on Aug. 21, 2015, Moogalian tackled gunman El-Khazzani, who was armed […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}