'Indian Metro hero' hailed by French people, media

[Night_Raven]

RIP to the brave soul ...

Pakistan can handle India

Yeah, right

 

[airuah]

always know when to pick a fight

its not about "when"...its about "why" a person fights- that makes a persons life worthwhile.

just fighiting when you outnumber your opponent does not mean you are courageous....only the weak and rowdy gangs do that.....that was not the case here....he fought for what he thought was right....

 

[Paan Singh]

nice but dim guy.

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could also be a bit of anti arab bias in here, as the french media does quite often. rarely do i read much of arab success in france.

you have a hole in your think tank

 

[Hussein]

'Indian Metro hero' hailed by French people, media

Hoshiarpur(Punjab)/Paris: Tales of heroism generally don't find place in French newspapers but the case of Rajinder Singh has been met with exceptional passion amid prevailing public anger over pick-pocketing, snatching and eve-teasing.

Indian immigrant Rajinder Singh alias Babbu, 33, died after some miscreants threw him out from a running metro train while defending a French woman.

"This is the first time I've seen such a strong reaction to the story of a death in our pages," said Antoine Barret, editor of the Daily Le Parisien.

Rajinder Singh was killed after he intervened to stop some Arab men molesting a French woman in city metro train.

An article describing Singh's simple life on Tuesday, titled "Babu, hero of the metro" drew more than 700 comments, with many readers offering to raise the 5,000 euros it would cost to send his body back home to India.

French ministers Marani and Frederick Mintra arrived at the metro station to pay homage to slain Babbu.

Transport minister Marani told media that Babbu was a hero and Paris Transport Authority will pay the flight fare for his family to transport his body to India. Culture minister Mintra said that Babbu truly represented the Indian culture.

It's worth mentioning here that Babbu came to France seven years back. He worked as a delivery boy who didn't know any language except Punjabi. He had to simultaneously work at two places as he had to arrange money for her sister's marriage back home as well as for his Paris expenses.

Paris police had recently arrested an accused in connection with the death of Babbu who intervened to stop him harassing a young woman on the metro.

When Singh, who came to France seven years ago from his native Punjab and was known to family and friends as “Babu”, tried to intervene, the attacker pulled him off the train, fought with him and then shoved him off the platform onto the tracks where he was electrocuted by the live rail.

Before the fatal incident that took his life, Babbu had shifted to a new house with his girlfriend Vimla.

'Metro hero' hailed by French people, media - www.daily.bhaskar.com

what means miscriant?
and by the way there was only one man not many

 

[Hussein]

i salute the brave man for his heroic act! He did what was right and therefore did not die in vain, and shame on those coward scums who were molesting that woman! To bad French men are to sissy to defend their own women!

the first version was given by a the friend of the so called hero.
now they checked the videos and the police was doing its job.
they discovered a totally different version:
1/ he was not protecting the woman
2/ he was punching the other man before this other man defended himself and by accident push him on rails
that killed him by electrocution
the videos showed it clearly

sad new anyway

 

[Developereo]

the first version was given by a the friend of the so called hero.
now they checked the videos and the police was doing its job.
they discovered a totally different version:
1/ he was not protecting the woman
2/ he was punching the other man before this other man defended himself and by accident push him on rails
that killed him by electrocution
the videos showed it clearly

sad new anyway

Has the woman, who was presumably a witness, given a statement?

 

[kingkobra]

the first version was given by a the friend of the so called hero.
now they checked the videos and the police was doing its job.
they discovered a totally different version:
1/ he was not protecting the woman
2/ he was punching the other man before this other man defended himself and by accident push him on rails
that killed him by electrocution
the videos showed it clearly

sad new anyway

your version is not mentioned in le parisien
Rajinder Singh, résultats de recherche pour Rajinder Singh - leParisien.fr

can you give links for your version?

 

[Hussein]

your version is not mentioned in le parisien
Rajinder Singh, résultats de recherche pour Rajinder Singh - leParisien.fr

can you give links for your version?

Affaire Babu. Doutes sur le « héros » du métro - Faits divers - ouest-france.fr

Mais il est apparu, selon des images de vidéosurveillance et des témoignages, que, contrairement à ce qui avait été dit au départ, Rajinder Singh, dit « Babu », n’est pas intervenu pour empêcher un vol de portable, dit-on de source judiciaire.

A court source said that the videos showed that the Indian Babu never tried to avoid any mobile thief

Selon des témoins proches de « Babu », qui l’accompagnaient, il s’est en fait disputé avec un autre passager de la rame qui, à ses yeux, importunait des passagères auxquelles ce deuxième homme proposait des bonbons.

People who know Babu say that he was having a dispute with a guy who was giving candies to women which made upset Babu
because of the way he was giving the candies to women

Les images de vidéosurveillance saisies par la police montrent ensuite les deux hommes descendre sur le quai. « Babu », entouré de plusieurs amis, a frappé le premier l’autre homme tout en le saisissant par le bras. On voit l’homme repousser l’Indien et le faire tomber sans le vouloir sur les voies, où il est mort électrocuté.

L’agresseur, un Egyptien interpellé par la suite, a été mis en examen vendredi pour « violences volontaires ayant entraîné la mort sans intention de la donner ».

Videos in the metro station show that the two men (babu and the guy) were getting out of the train. Babu , who was with a few friends, was hiting / beating the other guy the first. he was in the same time taking the hand of the guy. but the guy pushed him. babu died by electrocution on the rails.

Justice found the Egyptian guy who will be judged for "violence on someone who caused death, without intention to give death"

 

[crimemaster_gogo]

If u have not noticed that guy saved that woman from getting molested. To u that may be trivial..But to me and Indians like me it is an ultimate symbol of humanity...and I bow to him..

what if the woman was Palestinee ? what if the attackers were Jews? what if babbu was a pakistani side baloch? what if he was shia???

 

[Hussein]

calm down everyone . why to put religion in every stuf???
this was an accident

and as well i cannot understand some comments who blame French people!?
now you know the true story (see above): why French should be responsible for it???

By the way to answer a Pakistani strange statement: No it is not France to send the body but the Indian ambassy
It is one of the ambassy job to take care of this
Many French people were assassinated in Africa and it is always ambassy who cares about the bodies
the same for the French armymen in Afghanistan . It is not Afghanistan who is sending the bodies.

 

[DarK-LorD]

nice but dim guy.

Cheap posts but a Think tank.

 

[RKhan]

why? if you're going to pick a fight with someone over something trivial, you're a bit dim if you're going to lose the fight.

it would be better to leave alone, or call the authorities on your mobile phone.

acting like a hero when you've no chance of being one is a foolish move. if you're going to act like a hero you need to be able to back it up.

If you're gutless that doesn't give you the right the trash talk about someone who wasn't. And especially after that person died defending the honor of a woman.

 

[dearone4u_22]

always know when to pick a fight

well next time if someone haress ur gf ,how would you u feel if everyone instead of protesting waited for that right time to pick up the fight .......

u seem a bit too cold and sorry to say but a selfish c*ward

it takes a lifetime to gain self respect and a moment to lose it......

RIP my brother ,,,,, proud of you.....

 

[Bhairava]

what's so special about sikhs incidentally?

they formed the strongest backbone of support for foreign powers in the subcontinent 100 years ago. without the sikhs control of major parts of the subcontinent would not have been possible.

not all sikhs are the same so what's your point?

Actually it was the Punjabi Muslims who were the largest component of the British Army and not the Sikhs.