Le hangover! Two American tourists are found asleep near the top of the Eiffel Tower after being trapped overnight in a Paris landmark building ‘because they were so drunk’
- Security found men at 9 a.m. between the high second and third floors of the famous tower
Two American tourists slept a rough night in the heights of Paris’ Eiffel Tower on Monday after evading security the night before, the monument’s operator said Tuesday.
Security guards woke the men “in the early morning” as they made their rounds before the 9 a.m. opening time, Eiffel Tower operator Sete said.
They “appear to be stuck because of how drunk they were,” Paris prosecutors told AFP.
The drunken Americans had spent their illicit night under the stars in a place normally closed to the public between the tower’s second and third floors, but “posed no obvious threat,” Sete said.
The incident will draw comparisons to the Hollywood blockbuster The Hangover, in which a group of American friends wake up from a bachelorette party, with no memory of the previous night of debauchery in Las Vegas.
Two American tourists were found Monday sleeping a heavy night in the heights of Paris’ Eiffel Tower after evading security the night before, the monument’s operator said Tuesday.
The incident will draw comparisons to the Hollywood blockbuster The Hangover, in which a group of American friends wake up from a bachelorette party, with no memory of the previous night of debauchery in Las Vegas.
After paying an admission ticket around 10:40 p.m. on Sunday, the pair jumped over security barriers as they climbed down the stairs from the top of the tower, a police source said.
Firefighters, including a specialized unit for recovering people from dangerous heights, were sent to recover the intruders, the police source added.
Both men were taken to the police station in the seventh arrondissement of Paris for questioning, while Sete said it would file a criminal complaint.
The discovery of the nightly infiltrators delayed the opening of the tower to the public by about an hour on Monday morning.
Two bomb threats had forced the evacuation of the monument on Saturday and the police are now investigating.
A new email containing a bomb threat against the 330-meter-tall steel tower was sent to three Paris police stations on Monday, but police advised against evacuation.