Breaking News, Eiffel Tower Evacuated.

JONJO THE MISER

Eiffel Tower and surrounding park evacuated after bomb alert (AFP)
Around 25,000 people have been evacuated from the Eiffel Tower and the surrounding Champ de Mars park in Paris after a bomb alert, AFP reported.

About 25,000 people have been evacuated from the Eiffel Tower in Paris and its surrounding park after a bomb scare.

The alarm was raised after an anonymous call to the company which owns the famous landmark, officials said.

A police cordon has been thrown around the tower and about 1,000 people have been moved to the banks of the nearby River Seine, French media reported.

The 324m (1,063ft) iron lattice tower, built in 1889, is one of the world's most popular tourist attractions.

The evacuation of the tower and the Champ de Mars park took place calmly shortly before 2100 local time (1900 GMT), police said.

Officers with sniffer dogs are carrying out a thorough search of the area.

The French government increased security at certain sites between 2 August and 15 September, in part because of threats from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, French TV channel TF1 reported.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11302294

Piste

It's on BBC too: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11302294

KeithM89_old

Sacrebleu !!

BluesBerry

Nothing on sky about it

Donkey Oaty

No reports yet of any suspect devices.

Early indications are that it is a hoax threat.

mikom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe2BOpPz_S0

Ross_Mahon

Its those Roma Gypsies!

Phill Ewinn

A beumb?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek44tW0Dqig

Mark200

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8003126/Eiffel-Tower-evacuated-after-bomb-alert.html

Tourists were evacuated from the Eiffel Tower just before 9pm local time (8pm in the UK), according to French newspaper Le Figaro.
The company that runs the Tower received an anonymous phone call saying that there was a bomb planted there at 8.20pm.

A policeman said that 25,000 people were calmly evacuated from the Tower and were told by police to gather on the banks of the River Seine in central Paris, beyond a security corden created by the French forces.

Police were using sniffer dogs to check the Tower level-by-level, and an hour after the initial warning the Tower had still not been reopened to the public.

Traffic in the centre of Paris was thrown into chaos as the roads around the Eiffel Tower were shut.

The 324m (1,063ft) iron lattice tower, built in 1889, is one of the world's most popular tourist attractions.

JONJO THE MISER

Im sure the Pink Panter will get to the bottom of this.

BluesBerry

I nearly killed myself running to the sitting room to turn over to sky news scared the crap out of everyone shouting the eiffel tower the eiffel tower lol
such an anti climax when there was nothing

I was hoping to see some action :mad:

starbelgrade

A blonde goes to Paris to see the Eiffel Tower.

She asks a man the best way to get to it. The man tells her to wait for the number 72 bus. "It will take you directly to Eiffel Tower."

After 4 hours the man was passing back the same way & sees the blonde still at the bus stop.

"How come you're stilll here?" he says.

The blonde replies, "Only 65 buses have passed - there's 7 left to go".

Nodin

BluesBerry wrote: »

Nothing on sky about it

..doesn't have a Wayne Rooney/British connection so no priority....later on they might mention it...

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

KeithM89 wrote: »

Sacrebleun up !!

FYP

sponsoredwalk

If something happens to that phallic monument :mad:

Thrill

BluesBerry wrote: »

I was hoping to see some action :mad:

Got a hunger to see a French fry?

foxinsox

Voulez vous couchez avec mois c'est soir?

merde ......


wrong thread

Pookah

BluesBerry wrote: »

I nearly killed myself running to the sitting room to turn over to sky news scared the crap out of everyone shouting the eiffel tower the eiffel tower lol
such an anti climax when there was nothing

I was hoping to see some action :mad:

Eiffel for that one myself.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

sponsoredwalk wrote: »

If something happens to that phallic monument :mad:

I imagine there'll be another erection in it's place. Don't worry.

NoHornJan

We better put the Spire on round the clock guard...

Bellabidul

It's September...there's something wrong with the month...

Killer Pigeon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d6vgGVqok4

o well

Pacing Mule

I can just picture some dude going down on one knee about to pop the question and then getting escorted off by security whilst protesting the inconvenience.

ejmaztec

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Im sure the Pink Panter will get to the bottom of this.

Is that the porno version of The Pink Panther, starring Ron Jeremy as Inspector Clouseau?

Scuid Mhór

don't let the tower fall.

Mister men

Freedom fries tbh.

JONJO THE MISER

What is it with Terrorists and towers

davetherave

Dunno where their getting 25,000 from. Euronews has just said around 2,000.

Celly Smunt

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

What is it with Terrorists and towers

BIG fans of rapunzel (sp?)

Red Hand

NoHornJan wrote: »

We better put the Spire on round the clock guard...

Naaaaaaa

Pageant Messiah

Pageant Messiah wrote: »

I can just picture some dude going down on one knee about to pop the question and then getting escorted off by security whilst protesting the inconvenience.

Serves him and his cliche right

Liam Byrne

BluesBerry wrote: »

I nearly killed myself running to the sitting room to turn over to sky news....

That's where you went wrong.....actual news is on other channels.

Coriolanus

davetherave wrote: »

Dunno where their getting 25,000 from. Euronews has just said around 2,000.

Cause it wouldn't be nearly as much fun to blow an already existing hole in the ground?

bonerm

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d6vgGVqok4

o well

GI Joe Trivia : Nearly all the Paris shots in GI Joe were actually filmed in Prague. It was impossible for audiences to tell the difference however because they were asleep.

So what's happening here? Seems strange for there to be no updates on something as relatively big as this.

OPENROAD

Nodin wrote: »

..doesn't have a Wayne Rooney/British connection so no priority....later on they might mention it...

not really the case imo, sky do tend to cover major events

duckysauce

boom fuk its gone:eek:

strobe

Deleted User wrote: »

So what's happening here? Seems strange for there to be no updates on something as relatively big as this.

It's not really that big though is it? Any goon can ring up the cops and make a bomb threat. Surprised it doesn't happen more often to be honest. They probably would have just wrote it off as the hoax it was if it wasn't for the timing coinciding with the burka ban thing. They were probably under orders to be excessively cautious should anything of the sort come up.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0914/breaking58.html

strobe

strobe wrote: »

It's not really that big though is it? Any goon can ring up the cops and make a bomb threat. Surprised it doesn't happen more often to be honest. They probably would have just wrote it off as the hoax it was if it wasn't for the timing coinciding with the burka ban thing.

It's pretty big considering the scale of people being evacuated/the fact that it's the Eiffel Tower, which is the symbol of France.

duckysauce

henri is the symbol of france

travelguru

havent heard anything

rossie1977

superman come to the rescue??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSUr4vD5-mk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSUr4vD5-mk&feature=related

goose2005

This man was arrested after police claimed he had a suspicious package on his back

duckysauce

goose2005 wrote: »

This man was arrested after police claimed he had a suspicious package on his back

an arab ?

Thrill

Reports: Eiffel Tower bomb threat was false alarm



http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/09/14/international/i132657D34.DTL

Flimbos

BBC News wrote:

About 2,000 people have been evacuated...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you evacuate areas, or buildings, and not people?

Poor writing from BBC etc tbh.

I will stand corrected of course, if 2000 people around the Eiffel Tower, for some reason, have actually sh*t themselves.

mikom

Thrill wrote: »

Reports: Eiffel Tower bomb threat was false alarm



http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/09/14/international/i132657D34.DTL

Same paper.
Man, this story is everywhere......... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/09/14/international/i045925D88.DTL

Coriolanus

Flimbos wrote: »

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you evacuate areas, or buildings, and not people?

Poor writing from BBC etc tbh.

I will stand corrected of course, if 2000 people around the Eiffel Tower, for some reason, have actually sh*t themselves.

Dictionary Fail

Oxford English Dictionary wrote:

1 remove (someone) from a place of danger to a safer place:several families were evacuated from their homes
leave or cause the occupants to leave (a place of danger):fire alarms forced staff to evacuate the building [no object] :nearly five million had to evacuate because of air terror

CorkMan

Can you get time for making a prank hoax call?

Son Of A Vidic

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Around 25,000 people have been evacuated..

That must have been some enema.

Pookah

CorkMan wrote: »

Can you get time for making a prank hoax call?

I think it happened, not so long ago, to an Irishman for making hoax bomb-threats against Heathrow.