Paris, France:
The Eiffel Tower, one of many world’s prime vacationer sights, was closed Wednesday after workers went on strike, the tower’s operator stated.
The strike on the a centesimal anniversary of the demise of engineer Gustave Eiffel, who constructed the tower, was to protest “the current way it is managed”, the hard-left CGT union stated in an announcement.
The tower’s operator SETE was “headed for disaster”, it stated.
SETE apologised to guests, advising anybody with digital tickets for Wednesday “to check their email”.
The Eiffel Tower, Paris’s most well-known landmark, attracts almost seven million guests a 12 months, round three-quarters of them foreigners.
Eiffel died on December 27, 1923, on the age of 91.
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