The Eiffel Tower has been evacuated with fair hours to go until the Olympics’ closing ceremony after a man was spotted climbing the 330-metre-high landlabel.
Footage aascfinishd on social media on Sunday afternoon of an apparently shirtless man wearing bdeficiency lows scaling the side of the 19th-Century tower, fair next to its Olympic Rings disjoin.
Entry betidyh the Eiffel Tower is understood to have been shutd, while tourists enhappinessing the Paris icon have been directed down and out for their own safety.
Security forces have been on high vigilant thrawout the Games, not least after their uncovering day when a “far-left or Russian” incfinishiarism strike“ on France’s rail netlabors paralysed travel atraverse the country.
A man was seen scaling the tower
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And armed police were seen lining the streets of the French capital before the event’s much-anticipated closing ceremony, sprocrastinateedd to commence at 8pm UK time on Sunday evening.
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