The Badalona City Council (Barcelonès Nord), chaired by Xavier Garcia Albiol, has not missed the opportunity to organize a public recognition of the 20-year-old Moroccan man, Muhammad Alí, who works as a sweeper in the city's street cleaning concessionaire. . The operator did not hesitate to help a woman who was going to be robbed by two individuals who ended up attacking him.
On September 6, while the cleaning brigade was between Juan Varela and Richard Straus streets, in the Salut neighborhood, at seven in the morning, two individuals tried to rob a woman who was finally able to flee. Ali, seeing her crying and nervous, he stood between her and her aggressors, he reassured her, advising her to stay by her side until she calmed down and "she was able to take the subway," explained the protagonist of the tribute.
Shortly after aborting the robbery, the two criminals approached the street sweeper, slapped him in the face, splitting his lip, threatened him, and accused him of being a snitch. "One was Moroccan and the other Algerian" and they were arrested shortly after by the Guàrdia Urbana thanks to the description provided. "I am proud of what I did" and is aware that "if I had not been there, they would have robbed her" as they did hours before with another victim who had a gold chain stolen at the entrance to the Sant Roc metro.
The young man says that "I reacted because my parents have educated me to react to abuse" and have transmitted to him the values that his father so admired in the boxing legend, Cassius Clay, who converted to Islam and was renamed Muhammad Ali. hence the name of the young man in his twenties.
"Society would be better if we all did the same," says the teenager, since he believes that "beyond each person's nationality, respect and values should never be lost." Since the event, Muhammad has received numerous congratulations, both from his family, the company, his colleagues and the City Council.
The mayor of Badalona, Garcia Albiol has received Muhammad Ali in his office and has transferred him the recognition of the city of Badalona for "his commitment and courage". A recognition that has been embodied in a plaque that they have given him to thank "the courage of facing two criminals" and having left his job to "help a victim." Of the young municipal worker, Albiol has affirmed that he "is the best representative of the good people of Badalona and this, he deserves recognition".
