As rioters have left a trail of destruction across France, one shopkeeper channeled his inner hero to defend his business’ doors.
A man known only as Pierre has become an online hero for his recent defense of a video game store, and his image will likely live on forever as a meme.
“I can’t intellectualize what happened. Maybe it will come a little after the battle.”
Pierre is a salesman at the Micromania store in Nice, France, a chain owned by GameStop. During the seemingly unending violence that gripped the country over the weekend, Pierre stood up to rioters who were attempting to break into the shop, which already had its security doors down and its front door broken.
In a video seen by over 4 million viewers, Pierre marched down one rioter who taunted him, but as he walked back to his entrance, he was blindsided from behind with a kick.
However, Pierre got right back up and was later seen calmly adjusting his glasses as he remained steadfast at the entrance. To make his story even more iconic, he was pictured in the doorway alongside a life-sized photo of popular anime character Goku from the show “Dragonball Z.”
