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'Spider-Man' Scales Building To Save Dangling Child; Macron Offers Him Citizenship

Dramatic video captures the quick action of a 22-year-old Malian immigrant in Paris who began hoisting himself from balcony to balcony to save the four-year-old.
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks with Mamoudou Gassama at the presidential palace in Paris, on Monday. Macron offered Gassama citizenship for his "heroic act" in saving a four-year-old.

A four-year-old dangled from the fifth-floor balcony of an apartment building in Paris. As people below watched in terror, one man sprung to action.

Mamoudou Gassama, a 22-year-old immigrant from Mali, began scaling the building,

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