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Paris police received an anonymous call early Wednesday, stating that a bomb was located inside the Eiffel Tower, according to Fox News.
Since then, the monument has been reopened and no explosives have been found, a Paris police spokeswoman told CNBC.
The police have refused to reveal all the details of the anonymous threat.
French journalist Amaury Bucco tweeted that a man was screaming and threatening to detonate a device that would “blow everything up” early in the morning.
After the threat was telephoned, hundreds of tourists and locals were evacuated from the area.
“It was an orderly evacuation, there was no panic,” said a Parisian tour guide, who was at the scene when the order was given.
Police blocked the streets around the tower, including the bridge across the Seine River to Trocadero Plaza. The tape began to be removed about two hours later, after agents found nothing suspicious at or near the monument, according to The New York Times.
Every day the Eiffel Tower has around 25,000 visitors in normal years, but with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and travel restrictions, visitors have dropped significantly, according to Fox News.
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