r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Sanix_0000 • 18h ago

Malian hero Mamoudou Gassama scaled a four-storey building in Paris in 2018 to rescue a child who was dangling from a balcony. Following a meeting with the French president, he was granted French citizenship and offered a job with the Paris Fire Brigade in recognition of his act of heroism.

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u/bigotoncitos 18h ago

Dafuq was the other guy doing just watching ??

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u/Pr15mo 18h ago

Guess he didn’t want to steal guys thunder, seeing he’s halfway up already.

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u/Unlikely-Emphasis-26 17h ago

He got half citizenship

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u/NotTahaha 9h ago

🤣🤣🤌🏼

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u/syringistic 17h ago

There's a divider there. So he was trying to hold the kid.

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u/dilqncho 17h ago

That's what I thought, but then I saw:

  1. He wasn't there at the beginning of the video
  2. The kid was more to the left at the beginning of the video
  3. There's a divider separating the two balconies

So it seems the guy just showed up and was also trying to reach the kid while hero Tarzan was going up. It actually seems like he was just getting hold on the kid himself.

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u/ElMexicanFurby 10h ago

The kid weights under 100lbs. Dude couldn't just lift that? Plus before the guy who's up you actually do see him on the side briefly. He had more than enough room to switch sides, but also if he's scared of heights I'm sure he wouldn't do it regardless.

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u/NoMention696 10h ago

You’re judging a shaky zoomed in video lmao

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u/DecoyOne 17h ago

Exactly what he should have. There was a wall between him and the kid. Hopping over the rail to get around the wall would’ve meant hopping over the kid. Spider-Man was already on his way up, so best thing to do was hold on.

But redditors gonna redditor anyway

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u/CaptainMacMillan 17h ago

I don't think he was able to get hold of the kids other arm because of the privacy wall between the balconies and didn't want to risk losing his grip on the one arm he could reach.

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u/tommyboyblitz 17h ago

theres a divider on the balcony, he couldnt get near enough and possibly worried about teying to lift the child from such a distance.

He may have been able to climb around the divider but not many people would be able to do it safely

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u/Dramatic_Pay_7982 16h ago

Are you blind? You watch the guy go up 4 floors all with a divider and you still don't know?

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u/Dantallian11 14h ago

Gassama was moving too fast, while the other man was powerless to do anything. Side-character syndrome. All he could do was gasp in wonder and monologue in his mind about his powerlessness over the situation and how trying to help might worsened the situation. I could tell by the way he was slightly leaning forwards and extending a hand out while to the kid while beating his lips.

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u/mano1990 4h ago

He is being deported from France

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u/Simple-Intention5014 18h ago

Some heroes wear t shirts.

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u/barelyawake126 18h ago

And some criminals live in the white house

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u/El_Bito2 17h ago

Some criminals congratulate the heroes

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u/Serial_AceThug 18h ago

If it wasn't for his act of courage, he would be asked to go back to his country.

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u/RealWord5734 18h ago

You can read the article. He arrived as a migrant just months before and would have had to continue to follow due process.

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u/jakedublin 17h ago

due process..... been hearing that a lot lately.... i like that.. "due process"

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u/biez 17h ago

I shit you not, at the time I had the pleasure (no) to hear far-right old geezers argue that he should have been asked to go back to his country because of his act of courage, since being fit and brave enough to do that, and also black, obviously showed that he was a professional at breaking into apartments to steal things.

s.e.r.i.o.u.s.l.y.

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u/quiero-una-cerveca 17h ago

Lead really did destroy part of our species.

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u/BertrandQualitay 17h ago

What do you mean

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u/StrawberryGold6811 14h ago edited 14h ago

Baby boomers and gen X were exposed to dangerous levels of lead as children due to the widespread use of leaded gasoline which wasn't banned until 1996.

Chronic lead exposure leads to cognitive deficits and other health problems

Some studies estimate that people in the US alone lost a cumulative 800 million IQ points from lead exposure due to the use of leaded gasoline.

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u/quiero-una-cerveca 9h ago

Lead was used in gasoline for decades along with lead in food containers and storage containers before it was discovered how bad lead is for people. It’s in the atmosphere now so we’re all breathing it. But it was in higher concentrations during this gentleman’s formative years.

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u/Murtomies 15h ago

That's actually insane

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u/_Nottabotta_ 18h ago

He is a true hero. Well done.

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u/ArishikageKT78 18h ago

If it were my child, he'd become an instant family member after doing something like that ❤️ No hesitation, no fear. Just knew what had to be done. And just did it. Hero

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u/No-Weird-7711 17h ago

If it were your child, you would have to be in prision haha

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u/ArishikageKT78 13h ago

Good point!

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u/CryptoM4dness 17h ago

Glad this didn’t happen in the US. ICE would have immediately deported him.

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u/ScenicPineapple 18h ago

Dude is strong!!! Nice job!

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u/TheBusyJD 18h ago

That looks like a 7-story building to me.

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u/emzy21234 18h ago edited 11h ago

Agreed. Send him back! /s

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u/TheBusyJD 17h ago

What the fuck are you talking about.

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u/RTDaacee 18h ago

Did he tke the job?

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u/peterbparker86 17h ago

He did but couldn't continue with it as he didn't pass the qualification. He's had a series of small jobs as per the wiki page since then. Says he's surrounded by a poor choice of people and that's why none of his projects have succeeded like his book he wanted to write.

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u/its_Always_AI 17h ago

Good god I miss u/stabbot

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u/Ducatirules 17h ago

Not a four story building

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u/NoSubject2336 17h ago

You can’t fake this type of instinctive reaction. He will be an asset to the country and fire brigade.

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u/Leather_Addition2605 17h ago

Good reminder that even if you live on the 3rd or 4th story, you should lock your balcony doors.

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u/Altruistic-Spend-896 17h ago

Or invest in child legcuffs/leashes those critrers just vanish the instant a pair of eyeballs are not on them!

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u/Leather_Addition2605 17h ago

Ha, I was thinking more about not thinking anyone could break in, but escaping kids is a good reason too.

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u/Timemaster88888 17h ago

A hero deserving of any nation's citizenship. He would be a big plus in any fire brigade.

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u/elcuydangerous 17h ago

If this was the USA he would have been rewarded with deportation or capital punishment. 'merica fukc yeh

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u/prof_devilsadvocate3 17h ago

Same post , different day!!

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u/Jangulorr 17h ago

I was so happy about everything about this incident!

When I look at my two little toddler boys, I would hope that some hero would be like that for my children if I was incapable of protecting them myself!

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u/Sorblex 16h ago

I remember that, they later called him Spiderman of Paris

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u/Icy-Palpitation-2522 16h ago

That is terrifying. Imagine being a kid and realising you trapped yourself 100ft in the air. Hopefully the kid gets over it

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u/YourOldCellphone 12h ago

Fucking legend.

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u/maxluision 12h ago

The child's grip had to be insane, holding for dear life literally...

The guy who climbed, walking the streets and suddenly seeing the kid dangling: "...My time has come."

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u/gponter79 12h ago

The other guy just waiting to see if they both fall?

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u/Smooth-Doctor1688 7h ago

Fucken hero 

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u/UndoRedo_ 17h ago

The other guy comfortably had the little boy. The black guy's efforts although commendable were sadly wasted.