Next hero in France, Kosovo immigrant saves two families

A Kosovo resident, Florim Shehu, has turned hero of the small municipality of Changé after saving two families from floods that hit the Mayenne region in France during the weekend.

Florim Shehu, who has lived in France for three years, confessed to the French medium Ouest France Sunday's event in the village of Change.

“The storm began about 4: 00 a.m. on Sunday. I went to move my car because the water was growing very fast, but at the end of the road I saw a woman trapped in her house”, starts confessioning Shehu.

After seeing the woman locked inside the house, Florim Shehu abandoned his car Peugeot 205 who was trying to save her from the flood and went to save his neighbors in the neighborhood, broadcast albeu.com.

Upon arriving at the door of his house, Florim realized that the woman trapped inside the house was not alone.

Her husband had gone to a store and she was with her two children, including a one-month-long-x1>, Florim Shehu relates.

Despite major flooding, Kosovo's asylumman managed to save the three people who were trapped inside their home and had taken them to the house where he lived.

The apartment where he lives from September last year with his wife and two children is located on the high floors of a building in the village and was not affected by the flooding.

Right now, Florim asked for help from a friend of his from Paris.

He asked the Kosovar to help his family living in the village of Change “was the son of my neighbours who called me from Paris.

“He asked me to help his family that was trapped in his”, Florim Shehu said.

By the time he saved the other people who were trapped in their homes, Florim's car was carried by water and ended up in the river.

However, Kosovo's action did not stop.

He also rescued three of his Ukrainian neighbors confined to the first floor of his residence.

Because of its high water level, Florim could not open the apartment door, so he went through the windows, and he also took out three people who were trapped in this apartment.

In just one hour, reports Ouest France, Florim saved six people from flooding. It's our hero! ”, his neighbour, Dominice Roger, whose home has also suffered much material damage.

While living in France for three years, Florim Shehu has applied for asylum in the Mayenne Prefecture. Still no response from French state officials, but after this heroic act, the municipality is willing to help him.

The mayor of Change's small municipality, Denis Müchel, has said he will try to find a way to help Shehu.

He preferred to save his neighbors instead of his car. We'll try to find a solution to the”, Mayor Denis Mouchel has promised.

French media have compared Kosovar Florim Shehu to the African asylumr from Mali, Mammadou Gassama, who two weeks ago saved a 4-year-old child from falling from a balcony of a building in Paris. /aleu/