A gunman overpowered by passengers, including three Americans, on an express train after allegedly opening fire inside a coach is astonished at being branded a terrorist, his former lawyer said in a television interview Sunday.
Ayoub El Khazani, 25, has insisted he intended to rob passengers on the train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris after finding a gun in a suitcase in a park in central Brussels where he was sleeping. And he told police he did not fire a single shot, according to the lawyer, Sophie David, even though one passenger was wounded by a bullet and others reported hearing shots fired.