Following a bomb alert, in the early afternoon yesterday Saturday, August 12, 2023, the Eiffel Tower was evacuated for almost two hours, the police from the police having been immediately on site.
The alert was lifted after two hours and the iron lady reopened.
This evacuation concerned the three floors of the monument, including the restaurant of the tower, as well as the forecourt. A security perimeter has been established, deflected traffic and the monument closed to the public.
It should be noted that due to the terrorist risk, the forecourt of the Eiffel Tower has been surrounded since 2018 since 2018 of a 6.5 cm thick bulletproof glass wall, supplemented by anti-rags.
The Eiffel Tower had already been evacuated for two hours in September 2020, following an anonymous call for the police. “A man had called, shouted” Allah Akbar “and declared that he was going to” fart everything “in the Eiffel Tower,” said a police source.
