A 37-year-old banker from Turin was deemed a hero after he miraculously caught an Italian toddler who fell from her family’s fifth floor balcony last weekend, CNN reports.

Mattia Aguzzi said he and his girlfriend were walking to a bread shop in central Turin, when he heard a man yelling for help from an upper floor apartment.

“I heard a man scream when he saw the little girl leaning out on the ledge. The little girl kept leaning more and more and climbed over the ledge, she held on only with two arms and her legs were in the air,” Aguzzi said.

Just before she fell, Aguzzi ran beneath the 3-year-old girl, calculated her trajectory and caught her.

The girl was taken to a hospital, and was uninjured.

The mayor of Turin, Stefano Lo Russo, called for Aguzzi to be honored.

“The actions of Mattia Aguzzi, our fellow citizen who this morning, catching [the girl] on the fly, saved the life of the little girl who fell from the fifth floor, is a heroic and extraordinary gesture,” Lo Russo wrote in a Facebook post.

Parliamentarian Camilla Laureti also said she hoped he would be given a national medal. “I propose that #MattiaAguzzi, who saved a girl who fell from the fifth floor, risking his own safety and probably his own life, be awarded the Gold Medal for Civil Valor!” she wrote in a post on the social media network X, previously known as Twitter.

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