Assane Diop

Assane Diop is a main character and the protagonist in the first part of Lupin. He is portrayed by Omar Sy, while his 14-year-old counterpart is portrayed by Mamadou Haidara respectively.

He uses the world famous gentleman thief and master of disguise, Arsène Lupin, as his inspiration. His life was changed forever when his father Babakar was blamed for stealing Marie-Antoinette's necklace, which was under Hubert Pellegrini's possession. After learning that his father took his own life after being imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Assane uses his talents to avenge his father's death and outwit those who stand in his way.

Getting to know the Pellegrini's
Assane asks his father how his bosses are at the place he works. His dad makes him spell a word and afterwards they go walking through heavy rain. They stumble upon a woman, whose car got stuck; when they offer to help, however, she locks the door, but he explains that he is Bakbar, her husband's new chauffeur. He asks her to pop the hood, while she tells Assane to get in the car. She asks him where they are from, and he explains that they are from Senegal, but does not respond when she asks for his mom. He insists on driving her home, which she agrees with and she tells Assane that his father is a gentleman.

Some time later, Assane gets ready to get in the pool, and sees Juliette smoking a cigarette, not looking at him until he gets in. She asks him if he is the chauffeur's son, and he is a little nervous to respond, but tells her he would be fourteen the following week. She asks him if what they say about black people is true, and he asks her what she means. She explains that she had been told black people could not swim, but he tells her he can. She tells him that if he swims to her, she would kiss him. Assane gets in the pool, and doggy paddles his way to Juliette. When he makes it to the other side, he kisses Juliette.

When his father was blamed for stealing Marie-Antoinette's necklace, Assane visits his father in prison, but when a guard looks for him, he finds out he has committed suicide. Assane later buries his father, but is joined by Mrs. Pellegrini, who offers her condolences, and offers to help him if he needs it, but he tells her to fuck herself, and leaves. Assane remembers his father and finds the Arsène Lupin book he had gotten for him, which he starts reading.

Going to a new school
Assane gets a knock on his door from the police. He is told to sit down, and he tells the officer he is sixteen and lives with his mother, who the officer said they would wait for. He tells Assane to pack his things so he could take him to social services. While Assane packed his things, he saw the Arsène Lupin book, walks out to the balcony and climbs into another apartment, leaving, but is caught by the officer. He is taken to social services, where a man welcomes him and gives him a Bible.

In social services, Assane read the Bible, and was given a letter from his father. The man asks him if he has head of the Andrèsy School, which was one of the best in France and somebody had paid for him to go there. The man tells him to take the chance and go to the school.

Later, Assane walks through school, where he was being teased by two students and was greeted by Benjamin Ferel.

Meeting Claire


In 1995, Claire is greeted by boys, who surround her, calling her shy. Assane walks up and asks if everything is okay, and manages to get them away from Claire, sitting down next to her. She tells them that in her head there are two kind of men, barbarians and knights; she mentioned he was a knight, but both equally bothered her. She tells him that she heard about his father, and mentions she is sorry about what happened and introduces herself to him.

At school, Assane is hanging out with Claire, while reading Arsène Lupin, which makes a group of boys jealous. The boys walk up to Assane and Claire, and start teasing them, so Assane fights them, but gets injured. Claire is taking care of his wound, and Assane tries kissing her, which makes her laugh since she did not need a boyfriend. He shows Claire he stole the boys' lighter, which surprises her.

Assane tells Claire he never gets bored with Arsène Lupin since he learned something new every time and tells her that he thinks there are three kinds of men: the third one was one who did not care about anything except what really mattered, playing the game, but respecting the rules. The type was what he would call a gentleman. After this, Claire kisses him and tells him that she likes being with him. Assane tries kissing her back, but she tells him not to get carried away, but kisses him once again.

Finding out Claire is pregnant


Assane receives two police officers, and tells them he is undercover and instructs them to check the windows. walking inside a woman's appartment, she tells her that she would be safe. She asks her if she has an alarm, which she replies that she does not. He tells her that is a bad thing since thieves would return. He tells her to leave him her valuable items, which she could pick up when the thieves were caught. The woman agrees and gives him her jewelry, calling him a gentleman.

Assane walks up to the two cops, and tells them that the thief left, and takes the jewelry "to the station." He gets a call from Claire who wants to see him in a quiet place.



Assane is having lunch with Benjamin, who found a place for his shop, which Assane approves of. He gives Benjamin the woman's jewelry, but also walks to meet Juliette, who he asks to stop following him. She tells him that it is the other way around, and mentions he looks good; he tells her that when he cheated on Claire, it had been a mistake and could not keep doing that to her since he was a good person. Juliette tells him he is not a good guy, which is what she liked about him, also mentioning that she would keep waiting for him, but he tells her to stop.

At dinner, Claire reminds Assane that she had mentioned she did not want anything so fancy like the restaurant they were in. Assane apologizes, and orders the check, which she mentions she also does not want. She tells him that she is pregnant and Assane smiles, getting excited and getting up and telling the whole restaurant that he would be a father. He turns around, and faces the woman he had scammed; he leaves fifty euros on the table, and tells Claire they should leave, which they do.

Claire tells Assane that she was due in December 11, which Assane mentions is Maurice Leblanc's birthday thinking it was a sign. He tells Claire he would stop screwing up and love his future son which he thinks could be named Raoul.

Stealing Marie-Antoinette's necklace
Assane hears on the news that Marie-Antoinette's necklace had been found and immediately asks for a job at the Louvre, which he was refused at first, but managed to get in by talking about Senegal with the lady hiring.

He did not give Vincent his real name when asking him for money, and also created a wikipedia page under the name Paul Sernine. His friend Benjamin is shown to have recreated the necklace, which he used in order to throw everybody off at the burglary, having thrown the real one into a garbage can, which he picked up while working as a janitor. He also extracted the necklace using the trash bags like he had plotted since the beginning and leaves.

Men walk out of the Louvre, turning in santizing equipment. Assane and the rest of the crew are mobilized by their boss, and they all start cleaning the museum. While walking, Assane looks at the queen's collar, which he is told would be auctioned for over 20 million dollars.

At a café, Assane is told he looks bad. He tells Claire he is with he got a job. She tells him she assumes it is something secret which would damage his relationship with her and their son. He asks if he can see Raoul, and he is told that he can, but it might not be possible since he had stood up his son three times now. He tells Claire that he would change, and she tells him to tell his son, not accepting his alimony so he could buy Raoul a present instead. Claire walks away, and turns around to see that Assane had slipped her the money and a paper flower.

Later, Assane walks to an apartment, where he introduces himself, buy tells the people in the apartment that he does not have their money. They take him to the balcony and dangle him over the rail. He begs them for more time and tells them that he can tell them how to get more money than they will ever spend. He tells them that he is a janitor at the Louvre, cleaning at worth millions. He tells them of the necklace which would be up for auction, which he would steal. Vincent tells Kevin to throw him off the balcony, but Assane is able to defend himself, telling them that they underestimated him, seeing him, but not really looking. He tells them he needs muscle, somebody who can think quickly, and names himself as the one who knows the museum.

He tells the three men in the apartment how auctions go down. He tells the three of them to get in as janitors and leave with products in trash bags so they would not be scanned. He also explains that when they freeze the cameras, they would have seven minutes to get out, heading Rudy's way in order to escape in a fast and discrete car. Vincent asks Assane what he would be doing while they risked themselves, and Assane said he would be buying the necklace.



Preparations begin for the auction at the Louvre, and Assane shows up in a suit and a luxurious car, presenting himself as Paul Sernine. Vincent and his men also arrive at the Louvre, dressed as janitors.

Juliette mentions that the purchase of the necklace would help create the Hubert & Juliette Pellegrini foundation, which would support cultural and artistic projects. The necklace is removed from her neck and the bid starts at 17 million euros. Assane starts bidding, and the auctioneer is shown a Paul Sernine wikipedia article, which displays him as a rich man with a big net worth.

During the auction, Assane, who already had the highest bid, bids for 1 million more euros, saying that the auction was taking too long, jumping from bidding 42 million euros, to bidding 60 million and winning the auction. He is congratulated by everyone, but Kevin tells Vincent that Assane could double-cross them, which makes them figure they should double-cross him first.

The auctioneer tells Assane that everything seemed to be in order, but he had not expected "someone like [him]" to win. Assane asks him what he meant, but the auctioneer nervously explains that Assane is so young. They wait for his payment to be validated, and the auctioneer tells him that Juliette would like to meet him, but Assane said he would rather not meet her. He asks if he can take a peek at the necklace, which is allowed.



In the present, Assane looks at the necklace, but when going to touch it, he is stopped, and told to do so with gloves. Outside, Rudy is waiting in the car, and is told by a national police officer to turn the engine off if he was not driving. Kevin and Vincent take down Assane and the auctioneer, binding them and proceeding to leave.

Assane is defended by the auctioneer after a detective shows up and claims he could be suspicious, also mentioning he had never heard of "Paul Sernine's" company Nanobay. Assane asks him if he had needed to use his phone, which he mentions he had. Assane explained that since he had used it, he had made him money. The detective is called and told that Kevin, Rudy, and Vincent would be interrogated. The man calling asked the detective if he was familiar with Arsène Lupin because the events reminded him of a Lupin story. Assane is told he is free to go, and would be called if he was needed, but the detective searches him before letting him leave.



Assane arrives at Claire's house early, saying he had changed. He mentioned that last night had been nothing special, and he greets Raoul, leaving with him. They walk, and he tells his son that him being on his phone all the time was a shame, since he liked to read when he was younger. Raoul told him that that was due to him not having a phone back in his day. Assane gives Raoul his copy of Arsène Lupin, telling him that his father had given it to him.

Going to prison
Assane walks into prison with blankets and meets his new roomate.

Two days earlier, Raoul walks into a store and plays, where his father talks to his friend Benjamin, who tells him that the gems on the necklace were never taken apart, which meant the necklace had never left the Pellegrini's safe.



Assane rides a Deli +Eat bike and sits next to Juliette, who has someone pretending to be a mom with a stroller, using a hidden camera. He sits down next to her and tells her he wants no money; he covers the microphone and tells her that since the necklace was never taken apart, his father had not stolen it, which she mentions is true. She mentions that the gems being scattered around the world was only to create hype and the necklace had been bought from a jeweler in South Africa. She holds his hand and tells him it's true, which makes the detective assume they knew each other. Assane asked her to tell him his father was not guilty, but she reminds him that his father had signed a confession and tells him that she did not think he knew his father. Assane hops on his bike and rides to a park, where the police encounter many people using the same clothes as he was and lost him.

Assane gets home, and holds his father's gloves and reads his confession letter. When reading, he found several typos, which was odd of his father. He asked Benjamin what that was about and told his friend about his father's cell mate, which Benjamin called a coincidence. Benjamin told him to visit Comet and get answers and Assane figures out how to get into prison.



Assane visits someone in prison, who he calls cousin even though the man mentions he does not have any. Assane tells him that he can get out, while he took his place. The man laughs and sarcastically reminds him they are not twins. He tells the man that the guards just changed shifts and nobody else knew him. The man reminded him that he had forgotten about the handcuffs, but Assane shows him the "handcuff trick" and manages to take them off the man and on his wrists instead. He told the man to not deal anymore when outside, or he would find him and could get him back in. Later, Assane is given coffee by his roommate before going outside to the courtyard. He walks up to a few men, asking if he knew Comet and mentioning that they had a mutual friend, and gives the men cigarettes so they would give him the cell number.

Assane walks to Comet's cell, but he is told by another man that it appeared Comet had left and would not be returning. He is grabbed by the two men who he had asked for the cell number, and is told that he now owed them 1,000 euros worth of dope and now he had three days, which he accepts.

Assane is taken to the nurse, and tells her he had a pain in his stomach that had spread, joking with her. However, he gets refused a night in the infirmary, where Comet was at.

In the courtyard, Assane walks up to the men, and asks how he is supposed to get the dope, and is told that he could pull it out of his ass. Assane mentions this is funny, since that was the place he could shove his money, but he is stabbed by another man. He is taken to the infirmary, where he tells the nurse that he had had an accident.



At night, Assane wakes Comet and tells him his father was named Babakar and tells him that they had been in prison together. Comet asks if he had been the one to steal the necklace and Assane tells him that he had been wrongly accused. Comet tells him, however, that he did not know his father since he was alone in his cell and under surveillance and had only seen him once when he had been working in the library. Soon after, he also mentions that Babakar had intended to give the book to Assane because all the answers were inside and tells him to look through his things to get it.

Assane looks through Comet's things and finds an Arsène Lupin book. While he read through the book, he found his father had highlighted certain words, which told him he was innocent and was trapped by Anne Pellegrini.

Assane gets permission to see Comet at the infirmary and tells him he found the book. Comet told him he did not care how he did it, but asked him to make his wife smile, which he promised to do. He thanks him, and leaves the infirmary, telling the nurse that it had been nice meeting her.

In prison, the nurse finds Assane hanging, and calls for help. Assane is taken to an ambulance and is rushed to the hospital, but he had faked everything and managed to escape the ambulance, with the help of Arsène Lupin. He walked into a hotel, where he stole the maid's key and walked into Anne Pellegrini's room.



Anne was shocked to see him, but he directly told her that she had framed his father and asked what she had done to him. She told him that she made him sign it, telling to sign it so he would get a reduced sentence, but the judge was strict. She told him that she had helped him after his father's death from a distance and also mentioned that a police officer had promised that he would help Babakar, but he lied. She told him that the police officer was named Dumont, who knew she trusted his father and used it against him. She told Assane that everything she said was true, but he left. Later, Assane sneaks into a Comet's home, where his wife was and places a gem on a photograph she had, which made her smile.

Kidnapping Dumont
Dumont has a meeting, where he takes notes until Assane walks in and calls him, telling him he is from IT and needed to update some things from his computer, but mentions he found porn on it. He walks with Dumont, who gets angry because he thinks it's a sort of joke; Dumont tells him to erase it and be done with it, but Assane refuses to erase things on the commissioner's computer, mentioning that he had to file a report. Assane is asked for ID, since Dumont started getting suspicious about him working there; he gets offended and shows him the ID, also calling him out on the porn. Assane leads him to a place he does not recognize, and manages to knock him out. He took the battery and SIM cared out of his phone and put him in a van, which he and an accomplice drove off in.

In a cellar, Assane turned on a timer, and Dumont woke up. Assane asks him if he remembers his father, also mentioning that he was in no rush to leave.

Assane shows Dumont that his name was everywhere that had to do with his father's investigation, which Dumont mentioned was normal. Assane asked him why he framed his father and reminded him that he had offered a reduced sentence in exchange for a confession; Dumont told him he did not know anything, and Assane asked him to explain. Dumont told him Babakar was guilty, and asked why Assane was asking him all this, wondering if it had to do with the robbery at the Louvre.



Assane shows Dumont his family, and asked how he was able to make the money he made, given his salary and tells him about different payments he had been receiving, which he knew about. Dumont asks if he would turn him into internal affairs, but Assane mentioned that he would not, but mentioned he would be speaking to his wife if he did not tell him why he framed Babakar. Dumont tried reasoning with Assane, but Assane called Dumont's wife, who could not hear him until Assane turned on the microphone while Dumont mentioned the stolen money was for his kids, mentioning he would do anything for them, just as Babakar had done for his kid.

Assane gets a call from Claire, who asks him if he had thought of something for Raoul's birthday, but Assane metioned it was a surprise. Claire reminds him that he had said the same thing last year, but mentioned it was real this time. Claire mentions she does not even know what he is doing, but he mentions that she does not want to know, and she tells him not to do anything dumb, and the hang up.

Assane tells Dumont he knows his whole life and family, telling him he would not hurt him, but would hurt him, by editing videos of him, telling him he could get him to say anything he wanted unless he told Assane the truth. They both start losing their patience, and Assane messes up, telling him to say why he framed his father. Dumont remembers his name, and asks if that is him.

Dumont asks Assane to forgive him for how he had treated him when he was younger, stating he only wanted to look tough and mentions he knows his father was a good man, but was tempted. He asks Assane what he was doing, and mentions he is innocent and tells him he wants to see his family again, not turning him in. Assane talks to Dumont, telling him that people do not change, but wanted to change his mind about him, wanting to believe him. He tells Dumont that he forgives him, and the timer ends. Assane leaves the scene of the crime just as police begin to arrive and storm into city hall, where they find Dumont.

Working to beat Hubert
Assane visits Dumont in a restaurant and reintroduces himself, telling him that he has a gift. He gives him a Circé since he had broken the last one and asks about Pellegrini, wondering what he wanted to tell him the other day. Assane asks Dumont where his wife was, since she was not at work, and once again asks him to tell him about Pellegrini. Dumont asks him if he would stop if he gives him a name, which Assane agrees to, but tells him he cannot be trusted. Dumont tells him there is a woman named Fabienne Bériot who could help him, a journalist who almost got Pellegrini. As soon as Assane leaves, Dumont calls his wife who tells him she is working.

Assane looks Fabienne up and buys her book in order to get to know her.



Later, Fabienne got home, but was surprised to see Assane there. Assane tells her he is not a thief, but a fan. However, the woman tells him that Fabienne used to live there, but not anymore. However, Fabienne told him that she does not exist, since when she attacked the Pellegrini's she faced an army of lawyers. She asked him how she knew he did not work for Pellegrini, but he tells her about his father and tells her he wants to finish what she started, but she refuses.

Assane walks down the street and is found by Fabienne. He gets in her car, and she tells him that Pellegrini had taken everything away from her, which now meant she had nothing left to lose. She revealed that when he had gone to her house the other day, he had been the first person she had spoken to in days, and he had said nice things, so she decided to help him. She asks him for his name, and he says Georges Berlat, which she does not believe, so he moves on to Jean David. She tells him he has one last chance, and opens her car door and he finally tells her his name.

They get to Assane's house and Assane told her that he had tried to find documents since his father had been framed in 1995. She mentions it makes sense since Pellegrini's company was going down, but when Assane's father was framed, he was able to collect insurance money and save his empire. Assane tells her they need to create noise in order to take him down, and she mentions that she may have something.



Assane and Fabienne are in front of The Objector, which is where Fabienne spent her career working. She tells him where the archives are and tells him what to get from inside the building. She reveals that the tape he is going to get is a meeting Pellegrini attended in 1996. Assane takes her glasses and asks her if she knows the coward trick, and proceeds to enter the building while Fabienne called the security guard, telling him not to allow Assane to leave the building and to send him to the third floor. The guard stopped Assane, and sent him to the third floor, which he managed to leave just in time while the guards realized it was a trick.

Assane and Fabienne talk about Pellegrini, mentioning that the attacks in Kuala Lumpur in 1996 were an act of revenge since the French embassy had been blown up. They play the video and Pellegrini tells some men that they need to pay double to get his weapons, which angers the men. Assane asks Fabienne if Pellegrini was behind the guns that had been used, and he tells him that maybe he had used the insurance money to buy the weapons. Assane tells her that he would post the video on Twitter.

Assane gets to Claire's home late, which she does not like, but leaves and tells him Raoul's in his room. Assane and Raoul play videogames, and the former asks his son if he had finished the book, which Raoul mentioned he had. He told him that he was going to give him all the books for his birthday and told him that he would be getting him something else, which would surprise him. Raoul mentioned he doubted it since she had been on many dates with a doctor with a cool car.

Hubert leaves his home, where a press conference would begin while Assane and Benjamin watched. He tells the reporters and Fabienne that France is a country to be proud of, and tells them they have a big influence on the world, but some people had tried to damage the country's image and his as well. He tells them that he built his company with hard work, paying taxes, but somebody had launched an anonymous rumor and he felt it deserved his attention since Juliette would start a foundation and this could ruin her chances. He asks the anonymous Twitter user to show himself since he had nothing to hide. Fabienne asks Hubert if she believes he has the blood of the victims of the Kuala Lumpur attacks on his hands, but he does not add a comment. After she leaves the press conference, she is followed by a man, who she notices.

Fabienne is congratulated by Assane and she tells him about how she was followed. Assane told her he went to The Other Edition and told them that Salvator had wanted to make his TV debut. Fabienne told him that that was not journalism, but he argued that 2 million viewers would watch it. He also mentioned that she had done a lot, and he would go up as Salvator and mentioned it was his turn to take the risk.

Assane uses makeup and gets ready for television. He gives her a fancy pen, and tells her he hopes that it will help her write again. She mentions that she had not been Fabienne Bériot in a long time, and thanks him for bringing her back.



On The Other Edition Assane is welcomed, using a disguise. He tells the reporter that when someone has a Twitter account fighting injustice, people assume they're young, but tells Thomas that a lot of people are old. Assane mentions that the video they would see is a meeting that took place in 1996 in Malaysia in which Pellegrini sells guns to a group of men who orchestrated an attack on the French emabassy at the time. The host mentions that is insane, and asks for the tape to be rolled. After the video, the host mentions that there was nothing incriminating on the video and a man enters the room. Assane asks the host how much Pellegrini had paid him, and he brushes it off. On the way out, Assane fights Pellegrini's men and manages to leave while taking his disguise off.



Later, Assane finds J'accuse, Fabienne's dog and sees that she had been hung. Assane sits down, while holding J'accuse; he opens Fabienne's book, and cries.

Trip to Étretat
Assane holds Fabienne's dog and tells Benjamin that it was his fault that she had been killed and tells him that he should not have involved her. Benjamin tells him that he does not want to find him dead as well. Assane asks what he should do, and Benjamin reminds him he has a family and also that it was Raoul's birthday. Assane is being followed by the man who killed Fabienne, but starts running into a parking lot. He makes it to the roof and is able to lose his stalker, saluting him from the distance.

Later, he makes it to Claire's house, wishing Raoul a happy birthday. He opens his suitcase and gives Raoul a hat, which he mentions he is not sure if he likes, despite liking the books. Assane tells him that he knows he will love it, and mentions that they should go because he has something planned. Claire mentions she will not go with them since she has plans. Assane tells her that he had already bought her a train ticket and she agrees to go, but she tells him that she feels like he does not give her much choice.

Assane, Raoul, and Claire get on the train and tells them they would be going Under the Fréfossé fortress. Claire understands and tells Raoul that they would be going to Étrerat where there would be an Arsène Lupin celebration. Claire mentions that she had known Assane for twenty-five years, so she remembered a little of The Hollow Needle, however when Assane cites the book, she completes the phrase and Assane tells Raoul they are crazy, but connected.

On the train, Assane tells Claire and Raoul that it was fun being with them. Claire looks at her phone, and Assane asks if it was the doctor; she mentions that his name was Marc, and tells him that it was none of his business. He asks her if she had been seeing Marc, and since she does not reply, Raoul tells him that she had not seen him. She takes a photo of the three of them, and Assane spots Pellegrini's man on the picture.



Assane opens up his bag in which he has a cake. He lights it up and begins singing "happy birthday," inviting the people on the train to sing, which they begin to do. Raoul blows out the candle, and Assane turns to face Pellegrini's man. He tells his family he would return, since he would get something to drink. He passes by the man, who gets up and follows him. He steals something from the ticket man and walks away from the man, who could not find him. Assane grabs the man and starts hitting him, locking him in a room and walking away.

Raoul asks Claire where Assane is, but he returns and tells them that he could not get anything to drink. He also tells Claire that he got into a fight with someone who said The Mysterious Traveler was the best Arsène Lupin book, but tells them that everything is okay.

On the train, they make it to their destination, but Assane sees the man he had locked walk up to him. The man shows him his gun, and sits next to Raoul, asking him if he liked Lupin. Raoul mentioned he did; the man mentions Assane has good taste so Claire asks if they know each other. Assane tells her that they do not. Assane texts Belkacem, saying he was Paul Sernine and was arriving at Le Havre; Captain Laugier tells his crew to call Le Havre immediately.

Claire gets up and tells Raoul to go with her. Assane tells her that he would catch up and sits in front of the man, who orders him to get up and get off the train. Assane does as he is told, and is stopped by police officers who walk up the man and arrest him, believing he is Paul Sernine. In his pockets they find a diamond and his gun as Assane walks away.

Raoul wanders in front of his parents, while Claire asks him who the man was. Assane tells him that he needed to settle something concerning his father which he needed to see through in order to tell her. He tells her that he knows he tells her he would stop screwing up a lot, but asks for a last chance. They look around, but are not able to find Raoul.



Assane and Claire call for Raoul, but have a hard time finding him since many people were wearing hats like he was. Raoul was kidnapped by Pellegrini's man and shoved into a car which he drove off in. At the same time, Guédira walks up to Assane says "Lupin?"

Appearances

 * Part One


 * Chapter 1
 * Chapter 2
 * Chapter 3
 * Chapter 4
 * Chapter 5

Trivia

 * Like Omar Sy, Assane is of Senegalese extraction.
 * Assane's surname, "Diop," comes from the Wolof language native to west Africa.
 * Unlike most of the other actors playing the younger versions of the characters, Mamadou Haidara (young Assane) is actually a teenager.