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Ambre Tosunglu

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Ambre Tosunglu is a journalist at AFP.

Mamoudou Gassama living illegally in France is being honoured by the French president for scaling an apartment building over the weekend to save a 4-year-old child dangling from a fifth-floor balcony. (Thibault Camus/Reuters)
EMMANUEL MACRON

Hero Malian who saved child to be given French citizenship

​A migrant who scaled a four-story Paris apartment bloc with his bare hands to save a child was honoured by French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday

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  • Ambre Tosunglu
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