French police blockaded the area around the Eiffel Tower after a phone-in bomb threat. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
September 23, 2020
Eiffel Tower evacuated after bomb threat
French
police evacuated the Eiffel Tower in Paris following a phone-in bomb threat
earlier today (September 23).
Tourists
were moved from the famed landmark and the area around the tower blockaded
after the unknown caller said a bomb had been placed inside the structure.
Streets
below the tower and the bridge stretching across the Seine River to Trocadero
Plaza were cordoned off, but police found no evidence of a bomb.
The
restrictions were lifted a couple of hours later where some tourists were
observed walking near the tower, which received about 25,000 daily visitors
before the COVID-19 pandemic.
