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PARIS (AFP) – An 18-month-old boy survived after falling seven floors and bouncing off a Paris cafe awning into the arms of a passer-by, witnesses said Tuesday. "My son saw a little boy on a balcony. He had gone right outside the railing... I said to myself I mustn't miss him," the toddler's saviour, local doctor Philippe Bensignor, told AFP, recounting Monday's drama. "I had time to move from side to side to get in the right position," he added. "The little boy was fine. He cried a little bit but calmed down straightaway." "We were closed yesterday but the...

Double click on the arrow to step through the video a frame or two at a time. I'm never going under such a canopy again, whether on foot or in a car. One yo-yo comes along and you're a pancake. Thank God no one else was under the awning at the time. Also, what IS that "angelic" figure that appears three or four frames after the video initially goes black??? It's laying on its right side. Its head fills the frame and it's facing the camera.