22-year-old France based Malian citizen who is being hailed as a hero and dubbed the name ‘black Spiderman’ has been granted a legal immigration status and has joined the French fire brigade following his meeting with the president of France.

According to reports, on Tuesday after his immigration papers were fast-tracked, Mamoudou Gassama visited a fire station where he signed up for a 10 month internship with the fire and rescue services which he is expected to be paid £525 per month.

He is also expected to receive a French citizenship within a period of three months.

Gassama has been celebrated in France, his homeland Mali and across the world after a video showing him scaling several storeys of a building in Paris to save a child who was falling off went viral.

Except from the honours he has received from the French president, the family of the child he saved has also thanked him for his great quick thinking.

“We can only thank him and thank heaven he was so reactive.” The mother of the boy said when French police phoned her to tell her the news. “Then I saw video on the internet. But I should not have watched it because you know it’s your son in the video.

“Things could have turned out much worse so I am relieved,” she concluded.

Gassama left Mali as a teenager and travelled via Libya – where he was arrested and beaten – and by a perilous boat journey to the Italian coast. He spent four years in Italy before arriving in France in September to join his brother.

Without legal documents in France, he had been sleeping on the floor of a residence for migrants in Montreuil, outside Paris, rolling out a thin mattress each night and packing it up in the morning, sharing a cramped room with six others and unable to work legally.

And finally, he has found peace in a land far away from his country of Mali in Africa.