The little four-year-old boy was hanging from the edge of the fourth-floor balcony of a building. A mere slip of hands could have had a deleterious result.
A neighbour from another balcony was trying to save him.
When the passing by Mali man named Mamoudou Gassama, saw this sight, without giving it a second thought, he immediately started climbing up the tower and within minutes he was within the range of the child. He then grabbed the child with one hand and pulled him inside the balcony.
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The man is being hailed as a ‘hero’ by the witnesses present on the spot. Some have even given him the title ‘real-life spiderman’.
The Mayor of Paris, Annel Hidalogo, tweeted to recognise the bravery of the man. She wrote that ‘Mamoudou Gassama is a hero. He reminds us that heroism has no borders’.
French President Emmanuel Macron who was thankful to the man for saving the life of a French child offered to meet him. After meeting him he announced a ‘naturalised’French citizenship to the man with a job in the government's fire brigade.