A young Malian immigrant is being praised in France after scaling up four floors of a multi-level building to rescue a young child.
CNN reports the 22-year-old Mamoudou Gassama said he was about to watch a football match at a nearby restaurant when he saw a group of people yelling and heard cars honking.
His heroic actions went viral on social media after he scaled an apartment building to rescue the child.
"I saw the child who was about to fall from the balcony. I like children, I would have hate to see him getting hurt in front of me. I ran and I thought of ways to save him. Thank God I scaled the front of the building to that balcony," said Gassama. "I got on the top of a door and I managed to pull myself from balcony to balcony. And thank God, I saved him."
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