PARIS: A Malian migrant who scaled a four-story Paris apartment bloc with his bare hands to save a child was honoured by French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday and offered citizenship. Two days after his daring Spiderman-style rescue – viewed millions of times online – Mamoudou Gassama was received by Macron at the presidential palace. Macron, a centrist, has taken a tough line on economic migrants fleeing poverty rather than refugees escaping war or persecution. Firefighters arrived at the scene to find the child, whose parents were not at home, had already been rescued. “I saved the child and then went inside the building and I was shaking,” he told Macron.

Source: New Strait Times May 28, 2018 09:00 UTC