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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Tate Modern: Boy thrown from balcony ‘practicising gentle judo and making progress with breathing and swallowing’

The family of a boy who was flung from a 10th floor balcony in 2019, aged six, have shared an update on his condition

(Picture: PA Archive)

A young boy who suffered catastrophic injuries when he was thrown from the 10th floor of London’s Tate Modern is practising a gentle form of judo and adapted archery as his condition improves, his family says.

The French youngster was just six years old when he was badly hurt in the attack, while visiting the art gallery during a holiday with his parents in August 2019.

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