Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo praised the heroism of a Mali immigrant who saved a toddler who nearly fell from the fourth floor of a building on Sunday (27/5).
The incident happened at around 20 pm local time on Saturday (26/5). A four-year-old boy hangs on the fourth floor of a building.
In the video show, Mamoudou Gassama thoughtlessly climbed straight from one balcony to another in a building located north of the French capital.
The 22-year-old man has immediately greeted the joy of the people who previously watched the Spiderman-style action with dismay.
France has offered citizenship to an immigrant from Mali who climbed four storeys up a Paris apartment block to save a boy who was about to fall from a balcony, President Emmanuel Macron says.
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According to the French news station La Chaîne Info, the child had been left alone while his father went shopping
The 22-year-old is a Malian immigrant, who said he arrived a few months ago
Mr Gassama has even been invited to the Elysee presidential palace to meet with President Emmanuel Macron
Incredible footage emerged yesterday showing 22-year-old Mamoudou Gassama risking his life on Sunday as he climbed up the balconies to rescue the four-year-old who is clinging to a railing and glancing at the ground below, while horrified onlookers watched.
Mr Gassama reached the boy within minutes, prompting a loud cheer from the crowd below.
The video went viral and Mr Gassama, who has been nicknamed "Spider-Man" for reaching the boy in the nick of time, was swiftly granted a meeting at the Elysee Palace.
"I did it because it was a child," French newspaper Le Parisien quoted Gassama as saying.
"I climbed … thank God I saved him."
The boy's father was later arrested and told police he had left his son alone to go shopping and returned home later than planned because he was playing Pokemon Go, an enhanced reality game, on his smartphone.
"Congratulations to Mamoudou Gassama for his dare to save the life of a child," said Mayor Hidalgo via her official Twitter account. She also claimed to have called Gassama to thank him.
According to authorities, both parents of the child were not at home when the incident happened. The father was questioned by the police for leaving the child unaccompanied and to be tried and the mother was not in Paris.
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