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  • Radical Footage Shows Paris ‘Spider-Man’ Rescuing Child Dangling From Balcony [Video]

    28 May 2018 by Jasmine Stone in France, Lifestyle, Video
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    You have to go with the nickname Peter Parkour, surely?

    This chap’s name is actually Mamoudou Gassama, but the 22-year-old Malian immigrant has been dubbed the Spider-Man of Paris after his heroics at around 8PM on Saturday.

    Gasamma scaled a number of balconies like it was nothing, all to prevent a four-year-old from falling from the fourth storey.

    Go Spidey, go:

    Gassama was eventually tracked down 24 hours later, with this below from the Guardian:

    Gassama said he had acted without thinking. “I saw all these people shouting, and cars sounding their horns. I climbed up like that and, thank God, I saved the child,” he said.

    “I felt afraid when I saved the child … [when] we went into the living room, I started to shake, I could hardly stand up, I had to sit down,” he added.

    Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, praised him on Twitter for his “act of bravery” as well as phoning him personally to “thank him warmly”. She referred to him as the “Spider-Man of the 18th”, referring to the Paris district where the rescue happened.

    “He explained to me that he had arrived from Mali a few months ago dreaming of building his life here,” she said. “I told him that his heroic act is an example to all citizens and that the city of Paris will obviously be very keen to support him in his efforts to settle in France,” she added.

    He’s doing pretty OK thus far, because later today he will meet French president Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée Palace.

    The same can’t be said of the parents of the dangling child, with the father due to appear in court for having left his child unattended.

    Side note – I think I speak for everyone when I say please, in the name of all that is good in this world, stop making Spider-Man movies.

    [source:guardian]

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