The video shows him pulling himself up from balcony to balcony as a man on the fourth floor tries to hold on to the child by leaning across from a neighboring balcony.
Firefighters arrived at the scene to find the child, whose parents were not at home, had already been rescued.
'Hero' #Malian who saved child to be given #French citizenship https://t.co/iENiJSgxkd pic.twitter.com/eliYpA0QW8
— Arab News (@arabnews) May 28, 2018
A shy figure who was accompanied to the Elysee Palace by his older brother, Gassama said he had acted instinctively.
“I saved the child and then went inside the building and I was shaking,” he told Macron.
Reacting to his awards he said later: “I’m pleased because it’s the first time I’ve received a trophy like that.”
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