Paris May 28 (IANS) A Malian migrant has been hailed a hero after he scaled the front of a building in Paris to save a child hanging from a fourth-floor balcony the media reported on Monday.
Video of the 22-year-old Mamoudou Gassama s spectacular rescue went viral on social media on Sunday reports the BBC.
In less than a minute he pulls himself from balcony to balcony and grabs the four-year-old as a neighbour tries to hold the child from an adjoining flat.
The incident took place on Saturday evening on a street in the north of the city.
President Emmanuel Macron has invited Gassama to the Elysee Palace on Monday to thank him personally.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo also praised Gassama s heroism and said she had called him to thank him.
She referred to him as the "Spiderman of the 18th" referring to the Paris district where the rescue took place.

--IANS ksk