This guy was illegally in France but he didn’t hesitate a heartbeat to put everything on the line, including his own safety, to save a small child’s life. He will be an asset no matter what country he ends up living in.

France offers citizenship to Malian immigrant who scaled building to save child

France on Monday offered citizenship to an illegal immigrant from Mali who scaled the facade of a Paris apartment block to save a boy who was about to fall from a fourth-floor balcony, President Emmanuel Macron said.

Video shows Mamoudou Gassama, 22, risking his life on Sunday as he climbed up the balconies to rescue the four-year-old who is clinging to a railing and glancing at the ground below, while horrified onlookers watched.

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"I did it because it was a child," French newspaper Le Parisien quoted Gassama as saying. "I climbed .... Thank God I saved him."

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-hero/france-offers-citizenship-...

Oh! As for the child’s father...

The boy's father was arrested and told police he had left his son alone to go shopping and returned home later than planned because he was playing Pokemon Go, an enhanced reality game, on his smartphone.