The Malian who helped hostages at a Jewish supermarket to hide during last week's terror attacks in Paris is to be made a citizen of France.
It comes after 220,000 people signed an online petition calling for Lassana Bathily to be given a French passport and the Legion d'honneur, the country's highest honour.
The decision to award him citizenship was announced by France's interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve, who said he would preside over the ceremony next Tuesday.
Mr Bathily, a practising Muslim who has lived in France since 2006, had applied for French nationality last July.
The 24-year-old has been widely praised for his actions in saving people who would otherwise have been taken captive by terrorist Amedy Coulibaly, who was later shot dead by police.
As the siege at the Hypercacher store in eastern Paris began, Mr Bathily, an employee, ushered a group of trapped customers into a cold storage room, shutting off the refrigeration system.
"I heard shots and I saw my colleagues and clients running down," he recalled later. "I told them 'Come, come,' (and) got them into the freezer."
Mr Bathily proposed helping them escape through the delivery lift, but when no-one wanted to take the risk he fled alone.
Once outside he flagged down police and gave them information on the layout of the store that was used in the assault which ended the siege.
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Explosions rang out at the scene
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