Reports: Eiffel Tower bomb threat was false alarm

[The Straight Story]

Reports: Eiffel Tower bomb threat was false alarm
Paris' Eiffel Tower and its immediate surroundings were evacuated Tuesday evening after an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat, but a police search turned up nothing suspicious, French media reported.

Officials evacuated about 2,000 people and combed through the 324-meter (1,063-foot) tower, a Paris police spokesman said. By midnight, people were walking around and riding bikes underneath France's most popular tourist spot again. The tower itself, which had 6.6 million visitors last year, usually closes at 11 p.m.

Media reported that the scare was a false alarm. Paris police did not immediately return calls seeking information.

French media also said parts of a second tourist hub — the Saint-Michel subway station near Notre Dame Cathedral — were briefly evacuated following a similar threat. The station was the target of a terrorist attack in 1995 that killed eight and injured scores of people.


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