“The intervention of the deactivation experts has ended. The Eiffel Tower is once again open to the public.” With this message on her official Twitter account, the district of Paris where the symbolic monument is located has announced the return to normality.
The Eiffel Tower and its surroundings had been evacuated at noon this Saturday as a precautionary measure after a bomb threat, according to Le Parisien and later confirmed by the Reuters agency with police sources.
Explosive disposal experts were deployed in the area. According to the information provided by Le Parisien, the evacuation affected the three floors of the monument, including the restaurant in the tower, as well as the esplanade where it is located. All the visitors had left shortly after half past one in the afternoon (time in the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands). The go-ahead to enter the Eiffel Tower again has been communicated after four in the afternoon.
More than six million people visited last year. the Eiffel Tower, one of the great tourist symbols of Paris
“It was a false alarm, people can now re-enter,” a police source confirmed to Reuters.
