Le hangover! Two US tourists are found asleep near top of the Eiffel Tower after getting
Le hangover! Two US tourists are found asleep near top of the Eiffel Tower after getting stuck inside Paris landmark overnight ‘because of how drunk they were’
- Security found men at 9am between lofty second and third floors of famed tower
Two American tourists were found sleeping near the top of the Eiffel Tower yesterday after drunkenly getting trapped in, it was claimed.
Security guards are believed to have roused the men as they were making their rounds before the French landmark’s 9am opening time.
They ‘appear to have got stuck because of how drunk they were,’ Parisian prosecutors told AFP.
The Americans had spent the night in a spot normally closed to the public between the tower’s second and third levels, but ‘did not pose any apparent threat,’ said Société d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel (Sete), which operates the site.
The incident could draw comparisons with the Hollywood blockbuster The Hangover, in which a group of US friends wake up from a bachelor party, with no memory of the previous night of Las Vegas debauchery.
Two American tourists were found sleeping off a heavy night in the heights of Paris’ Eiffel Tower on Monday, after dodging security the night before, the monument’s operator said Tuesday
The incident will draw comparisons with the Hollywood blockbuster The Hangover, in which a group of US friends wake up from a bachelor party, with no memory of the previous night of Las Vegas debauchery
After paying for an entry ticket around 10.40pm on Sunday, the pair hopped security barriers while climbing down the stairs from the tower’s top, a police source said.
Firefighters, including a specialist unit for recovering people from dangerous heights, were sent to recover the interlopers.
Both men were brought to the police station in Paris’ seventh district for questioning, while the site’s operator said it would file a criminal complaint.
The tower’s opening to the public was delayed for around an hour yesterday morning.
On Saturday two bomb threats forced the evacuation of the landmark, which is publicly owned. Police are now investigating what happened.
A further email with another bomb threat against the 330-metre (1,080 feet) steel tower was sent to three Paris police stations yesterday but officers advised against evacuating the site.