(15 Mar 2006) STORYLINE:
1. Climber Alain Robert "Spiderman" walking towards tower
2. Various of "Spiderman" climbing building
3. People watching
4. Robert climbing
6. People applauding
7. Robert waving from top of tower
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Alain Robert, French urban climber:
"I don't really understand why they are charging for criminal trespass as I didn't even climb, you know. So it's a little bit the reason why today I'm going to climb because I feel a little bit unhappy."
9. Robert climbing up building
10. SOUNDBITE: (French) Alain Robert, French urban climber:
"I am here today to climb up the Mercuriales Towers. This is my way to protest against the injustice of the Americans who actually sentenced me to one week in prison when I didn't even climb the 'One Houston Center' tower in Texas."
12. Wide shot Alain Robert climbing up tower
STORYLINE:
A French urban climber who goes by the name of the comic book superhero "Spiderman" climbed a 31 storey or 122-metre (366-feet) high building, in Paris on Wednesday in less than 30 minutes.
Alain Robert, who was arrested in late November as he was about to begin climbing a building in Houston, Texas,
said this was his "way to protest against the injustice of the Americans who actually sentenced me to one week in prison when I didn't even climb the 'One Houston Center' tower."
Forty-three-year-old Robert was charged with trespassing and possessing drugs and will serve a one week's prison term in the United States at the end of March.
"I was only using prescription medication called Urbanyl, which is an anti-epileptic," he said.
A Houston police spokesman said two tablets found on Robert were believed to be the sedative Xanax. But the climber denies this.
Robert is known for climbing some of the world's tallest buildings with his bare hands and without a safety net.
Among his more than 30 urban climbs, the French Spiderman scaled the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building and Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers.
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