France: Macron rewards migrant hero who saved dangling child

President Emmanuel Macron on Monday lauded as a hero a migrant from Mali who scaled an apartment building to save a child dangling from a balcony, and rewarded the young man’s bravery with an offer of French citizenship and a job as a firefighter. Gassama climbed five stories up the apartment building, moving from balcony to balcony, and whisked a 4-year-old boy to safety on Saturday night as a crowd below screamed. Gassama said he has authorization to stay legally in Italy, which is where he landed in Europe in 2014 after a more than a year in …read more

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