| LC control no. | no2019086270 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Gassama, Mamoudou, 1996- |
| Variant(s) | Gassama, Mamadou, 1996- |
| Associated country | Mali France |
| Associated place | Burkina Faso Niger Libya Italy |
| Located | Paris (France) |
| Birth date | 1996 |
| Profession or occupation | Immigrants Heroes |
| Found in | Gassama Coeur-de-lion, 2019: page 4 of cover (Mamoudou Gassama, a young clandestine Malian immigrant in Paris, climbed a building to save a young boy hanging from the fourth floor) BBC News (online), The Spiderman of Paris: what happened next, 24 December 2018, viewed June 11, 2019 (Mamadou Gassama; on Saturday, 26 May, he saw a crowd looking up at a small boy dangling from a fourth-floor balcony, and he climbed up in seconds and pulled the boy to safety; mobile phone footage of the event was shared around the world; when it emerged that he was an illegal migrant, President Emmanuel Macron announced that he would be made a naturalised citizen, and gave him a medal for courage, as did the mayor of Paris; he was given an internship with the city's firefighters) Wikipedia, June 11, 2019 (Mamoudou Gassama; born 1996; Malian-French citizen, living in France; born in Mali; traveled to Europe via Burkina Faso, Niger and Libya, where he was arrested and beaten; crossed the Mediterranean and obtained papers to stay legally in Italy, but traveled to France in September 2017 to join his elder brother; on 24 June 2018 he received the BET Humanitarian Award in Los Angeles) |
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