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Walter Benjamin and Hassan Elouafi. Source: Facebook
Walter Benjamin and Hassan Elouafi. Source: Facebook

While still holed up in a hospital in Brussels, bombing survivor Walter Benjamin started sharing his story on Facebook, urging his loved ones and friends to stop worrying. 

Although he's the king and queen of Belgium as well as the country's chief rabbi, he's been most impressed by an airport technician, Hassan Elouafi, who stepped over corpses at the airport to hand him a phone so that he could call his mother.

Walter, who lost a leg in the terrorist attack, wants more than anything to tell Elouafi's story at a time when many Muslims are being demonised because of the actions of a few.

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