They spent a night under the stars at the Eiffel Tower: two drunken American tourists were found on Monday sleeping in the famous Parisian monument where they had hidden on Sunday, Police and judicial sources and the operating company indicated on Tuesday.
The two intruders were discovered “at dawn”, before the Tower opened to the public at 09:00, when the company security guards exploiting the Eiffel Tower (Sete) made their rounds. The tourists were between the second and third floors of the Tower, in an area not accessible to the public.
did not represent “no apparent threat”, according to Set. They had paid their ticket around 10:40 p.m. Sunday and jumped the barriers going downstairs, according to police.
Firefighters, including those from the specialized unit Groupe d’intervention et de reconnaissance en milieu périlleux (Grimp), came to recover them and bring them to safety, according to the same source.
“Apparently they were trapped in place due to their alcoholism”according to the Paris prosecutor’s office, contacted by AFP.