Happy day for the French daredevil who climbed The New York Times Building last week, as the jury dismissed the criminal charges against him.

According to The New York Times, Barbara Thompson, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney’s office, said Thursday that Alain Robert, the French climber, was cleared of criminal charges. Instead, the jury told the district attorney to charge him of disorderly conduct in Criminal Court, said the spokeswoman.

Daniel N. Arshack, Robert’s lawyer, said that a disorderly conduct was like an equivalent of a parking ticket and was not a crime. Robert could face a maximum penalty of 15 days and a fine, if the prosecutors decide to pursue these charges. They must decide by October 1.

Robert, 45, faced misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment, trespassing and graffiti and, also, disorderly conduct charges.

The French professional climber said he was very careful and took the necessary measures so that no one would get hurt.

“He was elated and relieved that they understood that he had done what he did safely,” said Robert's lawyer, Arshack, according to the New York Daily News.

The second climber, Renaldo Clarke, 32, of Brooklyn, is still under investigation.

The two climbers Robert and Clarke climbed the 52-story New York Times Building in Times Square a few hours apart from one another.

Robert, an experienced stuntman known as The French Spiderman, was the first to climb the building and unfurl a banner that read "Global warming kills more people than a 9/11 every week." He was arrested when he got to the top.

A few hours later, Clarke, a New Yorker who declared he wanted to raise awareness of the dangers of malaria, climbed the Eighth Avenue side of the building.

Before reaching the building’s top, Clarke started showing signs of fatigue, and officers awaiting him on the roof encouraged him and even threw him a rope, which he refused to take.

Robert has already climbed more than 70 skyscrapers all across the globe and said he was arrested 14 times so far. He was last arrested in February, after climbing a 42-floor building in Sao Paulo, Brazil.