More Updates: Mamoudou Gassama African Spiderman Immigrant Who Saved Dangling Child Given Residency Permit

Mamoudou Gassama, the Malian migrant “Spiderman” who saved a child hanging off a balcony by scaling an apartment block with his bare hands, received French residency Tuesday, the first step towards citizenship promised by President Emmanuel Macron.
After receiving a resident’s permit from local authorities, the 22-year-old, who had been living illegally in France since September, signed a contract to carry out an internship with the Paris fire service.
The family of a small boy found hanging from a balcony in Paris have expressed heartfelt thanks to the Malian migrant who saved him.
“He’s truly a hero,” the boy’s grandmother said of Mamoudou Gassama, who climbed four floors before a crowd of well-wishers to pluck the child from danger.
The four-year-old’s father, who had allegedly left him in their flat to go shopping, and then stayed out longer than planned to play Pokemon Go, faces charges of child neglect.
The daring rescue, which has earned him the nickname of Spider-Man, saw Mr Gassama become an overnight national hero and he was offered French citizenship.
President Emmanuel Macron awarded him a medal for bravery after inviting him to the Elysée Palace on Monday and offered him a job in the fire brigade.
“Thank you France. That’s all I can say,” said Mr Gassama after coming out of the state prefecture in of Bobigny, north or Paris, where he was handed a residency permit while awaiting full citizenship.
It transpires that the boy had left Réunion, the French Indian Ocean island, where his mother and grandmother live, only three weeks ago for Paris to join his father, who works in the capital. His mother and the couple’s second child were due to join them in June.
The boy had already fallen one or two floors before somehow managing to grab hold of the fourth-floor balcony, as he is said to have pointed upwards when a resident in the neighbouring fourth-floor flat asked where he came from.
His mother told Antenne Réunion that the boy’s father had little experience looking after him on his own and that this was not the first time he had left him alone.