‘French Spiderman’ Alain Robert sued after climbing a high-rise Makati building

Alain Robert became the subject of netizens’ commotion on Twitter as a video of him climbing down the GT International Tower in Ayala Avenue circulated online. (File photo:
Alain Robert/Facebook)

‘French Spiderman’ Alain Robert was sued after scaling a high-rise Makati building on Tuesday, January 29, without any safety gears.

Robert, a 56-year-old French urban climber, is facing charges of alarm and scandal and other forms of trespassing, according to the Makati City Police.

He became the subject of netizens’ commotion on Twitter as a video of him climbing down the GT International Tower in Ayala Avenue circulated online.

He was wearing black long sleeves and yellow pants with a camera on his forehead, but he did not bring a harness with him when he scaled the skyscraper.

Reacting to the video, netizen @joy_twiz said, “Alain Robert scared the sh*t out of me. I’m glad he made it back safe[ly] to the ground.”

Twitter user @zeradg, meanwhile, said, “Nahinto kami nang panandalian sa trabaho dahil kay Alain Robert na umaakyat ng GT Tower kaninang umaga (We stopped working for a while because of Alain Robert who climbed the GT Tower this morning).”

Having witnessed the scene, netizen @ldyeyGarcia tweeted, “Na-alarma ang buong Makati peeps dahil sa’yo. Sir, namawis ang mga kamay at talampakan ko sa katitingala sa’yo (All Makati people were alarmed because of you. Sir, I felt my hands and feet sweat by watching you).”

While other netizens were scared seeing what Robert did, some social media users, on the other hand, made light of the situation.

Netizen @JoseMarioAlas said Marvel fans maybe mistaken when they thought that Spider-Man turned into dust after Thanos snapped his fingers in Avengers: Infinity War.

“It turns out that he’s well and good, scaling the heights of GT Tower right now. But he has changed drastically, looking more like Alain Robert,” he wrote on his tweet.

Twitter user @AkoSiOllie, meanwhile, said, “Hi Alain Robert! Bilang inaakyat mo na ‘yang GT Tower, pasabay naman pabili ng Banh Mi dyan sa (Since you climbed the GT Tower, you might as well also buy me a Banh Mi in the) 12th Floor. Kthnkbye (Okay, thanks, bye)!”

Robert has already climbed several of the world’s skyscrapers including Paris’s Eiffel Tower, Malaysia’s Petronas Towers, New York’s Empire State Building, and the world’s tallest building, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, among others.

Just last October 2018, Robert was arrested for causing public nuisance after he scaled one of London’s tallest buildings, the Heron Tower, without safety equipment.