Mayor of Dutch Nyjmegen city honored the Syrian Moaz Murad for the "heroic" act he performed, when he threw himself without hesitation in the waters of the "Waal" river on a very cold day and saved the life of the son of his city, the Dutch De Settenor newspaper reported. .
The newspaper quotes "Murad" as his comment: "I really do not want to be the hero."
It added: "Murad", 32, was only talking about the boat trip that threatened his life, which brought him as a refugee from Syria to Europe, when he suddenly saw a person drowning under a bridge in Nijmegen, took off his clothes, and threw himself in the water to save the young man, the newspaper says.
The survived man was under training in psychology studies, but he appears to have mental problems.
The newspaper praised Murad's work, writing: "If you create a film script with these components, they will probably accept it in Hollywood.
“If I thought too long about all the coincidences at the time of this accident, I would go crazy,” Murad says, but he didn’t go crazy, on that cold February day early this year, he became the hero.
That's why, on Tuesday, Mayor Berlus de Nijmegenar received him with all due respect in his room at Nijmegen City Hall, the mayor pins for "Moaz" the Medal of Honor for Humanitarian Aid, the paper points out.
"If a man in his thirties hadn't jumped into the water without hesitation during that walk with a friend on the beach in De Kaaij, there probably wouldn't be another young city-dweller," de Nijmegenar says.
The newspaper concludes: "Moaz, who fled Syria in 2015 from the war and ended up in Nijmegen via the Humanswerd refugee camp, became the hero of the city."
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