Wednesday, 30 May 2018

Paris 'Spider-Man' joins fire brigade after citizenship fast-tracked

Mamoudou Gassama granted legal status and signs up for €600-a-month internship

Mamoudou Gassama, the 22-year-old Malian hailed as a hero in France for saving a child hanging from a balcony, has been granted legal immigration status and has joined the French fire brigade.

Gassama has been celebrated in France and Mali after a video went viral showing him scaling several storeys of a Paris building to save a four-year-old boy who had already dropped one floor and was dangling from a balcony railing by his fingertips.

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