Friday, September 18 around 7:30 p.m., passers-by around Montparnasse station found themselves facing an astonishing spectacle.
A man was climbing the 59-story tower with his bare hands, no ropes or any security system.
At first very worried, the witnesses were then reassured by the ease and agility of the climber: “He climbed quietly, in a very fluid way, as if he had been doing this all his life!
»Claire told the Parisian.
When he arrived at the halfway point, he was joined by a rescuer rappelled from the roof of the tower to assist him.
According to Claire, he stayed below or next to the climber until they reached the top.
210 meters higher, the young man finished his ascent to the applause of the crowd.
Just before being arrested by the police.
The identity of this athlete was unveiled by a French climber / youtubeur Nicolas Mathieux.
According to him, it would be the owner of the Instagram account "bnt_fhuj_hd", identified by foreign media as the Polish videographer Marcin Banot.
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Nicknamed the Polish Spider-Man, he's a regular at this type of high-risk performance.
In June 2019, he climbed without security at the Marriott Hotel in Warsaw.
