C is a resounding cackle in a tense situation. Visitors to the Eiffel Tower were evacuated Friday night shortly after 20 hours. Parisians and tourists are out in the calm after the evacuation by mistake.
“This is an exercise in internal simulation, as is done in dozens per week, went wrong. There is one employee who thought it was real. And the Eiffel Tower was evacuated, “he told a police source.
The boss of the Eiffel Tower gives another explanation
” There was to be no evacuation of people, “she said, calling the incident a” mistake “due to a” misunderstanding “. The police source also ruled out the hypothesis of a possible suspicious package as had previously been reported. Reportedly, the team of deminers had also not been called there.
However, the president of SETE (Operating Company of the Eiffel Tower) Gaudillère Bernard gave a little later to AFP a slightly different explanation.
To 7:15 p.m., an employee responsible for monitoring the radiographs bags thought he saw “something suspicious” in a bag, like a gun and who is later revealed to be an object in plastic, has he said. But as the luggage was in the flow of a group, the employee could not determine whether the holder had passed or not the control.
Reopens Saturday morning
the “precautionary principle” was then applied to call the police and evacuation. “We do not want to take any risks,” added the president of SETE that “glad that the instructions have been followed.”
No estimate of the number of evacuees was available. Police and military forces were deployed around the tower. The monument will not reopen until Saturday morning.
Since its inauguration in 1889, nearly 250 million visitors came to discover, according to its operator.
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