Eiffel Tower installing a SECOND security wall to protect against Islamic terror attacks

52

Consider for a moment just how Islamic terror has changed the very daily social fabric of our lives.

Air travel went from being a sexy fun adventure (think Catch me if you can) to a degrading misery. Our lives were no longer our own, our privacy a thing of the past. In the wake of the jihad war on the West, security measures became omnipresent. Crippling. We became inured to living in this low grade state of war. Train and railway stations are guarded by the military with big dogs and bigger guns. Subway stations and train too, while we are “randomly checked” by counter terror police.  You cannot enter a building without a security protocol in major cities. Sports events and holiday celebrations (i.e. July 4th) are fraught with peril. Handbags and backpacks are verboten. Women have to wear see-thru or plastic handbags. I could go on …..

Islamic terror has put free societies on lockdown. And the takeaway from it all? Resistance is “racist” and “islamophobic,” and anyone who does not stay silent (in accordance with Islamic law) will be persecuted and destroyed.

Story continues below advertisement

But instead of taking the necessary action, they build walls inside our cities and towns.

Eiffel Tower installing bulletproof glass walls to protect monument from terror attacks

By Paul Pradier, ABC News, June 16, 2018:

The Eiffel Tower will soon be surrounded with bulletproof glass walls to protect the iconic monument from terrorist threats.

Since the terror attacks that killed 130 people in Paris and Saint-Denis on Nov. 13, 2015, the iconic tower has been under constant surveillance. French soldiers and policemen patrol the site 24 hours a day. But the company that operates the tower, SETE, said the site still needed more security.

“The square of the Eiffel Tower was still, at the time, accessible to anyone very easily,” Bernard Gaudillere, SETE’s president, told ABC News. “Therefore we decided to build a new perimeter around the Eiffel Tower to increase the security.”

The new perimeter will be unveiled to the public next month. But ABC News was given access to the construction site for a preview.

A bulletproof glass wall is to be set around the Eiffel tower as an anti-terrorism measure, June 14, 2018, in Paris.

Temporary barriers were set up around the 1063-foot tower in June 2016. They are now being replaced by permanent bulletproof glass walls on the northern and southern ends of the landmark, and by metal fences on the eastern and western sides. Visitors will have access to the Eiffel Tower through these fences.

“The two glass walls are 10 feet high,” Gaudillere said of the new, permanent walls. “They are bulletproof and very solid.”

He also said 420 blocks will also be installed in front of the glass walls to prevent a vehicle attack like the ones that have occurred in New York and across Europe.

The new security perimeter, which costs $40 million, will be completed and unveiled in July.

But critics, including people living in the neighborhood near the Eiffel Tower, say that the walls will drastically change the appearance of the landmark, making it look like a fortress. Jean-Sébastien Baschet, the president of an organization called Les Amis du Champ-de-Mars, said in a statement last year that the new perimeter would affect local residents’ access to the gardens near the tower.

“The privatization of the gardens located right next to the Eiffel Tower is unacceptable and incompatible with the notion of cohabitation, which is very important to our neighborhood,” Baschet said in a statement posted to the group’s website in May 2017.

Baschet did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for comment.

Others see the barriers as necessary to protect visitors.

“It will look much better than the temporary barriers that were installed two years ago, but most importantly, the security of our visitors will be increased, and this is our absolute priority,” Alain Dumas, technical director for the Eiffel Tower operating company, told ABC News.

A security steel fence is pictured around the Eiffel Tower in Paris, June 14, 2018.”

Gaudillere said the threat of terrorism at the tower is very real. In August 2017, a man with a knife tried to breach security at the Eiffel Tower. He was quickly surrounded and arrested on the scene by French police. No one was hurt in the incident but the tower was briefly evacuated.

After a difficult year in 2016 in which the numbers of visitors to the Eiffel Tower felt below 6 million people for the first time in 15 years, there has been a rebound.

 

The Truth Must be Told

Your contribution supports independent journalism

Please take a moment to consider this. Now, more than ever, people are reading Geller Report for news they won't get anywhere else. But advertising revenues have all but disappeared. Google Adsense is the online advertising monopoly and they have banned us. Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have blocked and shadow-banned our accounts. But we won't put up a paywall. Because never has the free world needed independent journalism more.

Everyone who reads our reporting knows the Geller Report covers the news the media won't. We cannot do our ground-breaking report without your support. We must continue to report on the global jihad and the left's war on freedom. Our readers’ contributions make that possible.

Geller Report's independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our work is critical in the fight for freedom and because it is your fight, too.

Please contribute here.

or

Make a monthly commitment to support The Geller Report – choose the option that suits you best.

Quick note: We cannot do this without your support. Fact. Our work is made possible by you and only you. We receive no grants, government handouts, or major funding. Tech giants are shutting us down. You know this. Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Adsense, Pinterest permanently banned us. Facebook, Google search et al have shadow-banned, suspended and deleted us from your news feeds. They are disappearing us. But we are here.

Subscribe to Geller Report newsletter here— it’s free and it’s essential NOW when informed decision making and opinion is essential to America's survival. Share our posts on your social channels and with your email contacts. Fight the great fight.

Follow Pamela Geller on Gettr. I am there. click here.

Follow Pamela Geller on
Trump's social media platform, Truth Social. It's open and free.

Remember, YOU make the work possible. If you can, please contribute to Geller Report.

Join The Conversation. Leave a Comment.

We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spammy or unhelpful, click the - symbol under the comment to let us know. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.

If you would like to join the conversation, but don't have an account, you can sign up for one right here.

If you are having problems leaving a comment, it's likely because you are using an ad blocker, something that break ads, of course, but also breaks the comments section of our site. If you are using an ad blocker, and would like to share your thoughts, please disable your ad blocker. We look forward to seeing your comments below.

0 0 votes
Article Rating
52 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
MAS
MAS
5 years ago

Since the plane hijackings in the last century I’ve maintained that we need to dispatch hunter killers for these Islamofascists. If a nation state is supporting them we need to destroy that nation then leave. Instead we increase “security” (read; searching your 90 year old Swedish grandma) while ignoring the only solution, getting rid of the problem. We actually import the problem into our societies without even a fail safe in place to send them home when they inevitably refuse to assimilate. This is a religious war. It doesn’t matter if you’re an atheist, the enemy isn’t and has declared war on you in the name of their god. There are only two choices fight or surrender, the opposition has chosen to fight…

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
5 years ago
Reply to  MAS

Well said, MAS, I agree.

leonore35
leonore35
5 years ago
Reply to  MAS

Not only is there no ‘fail safe’ as you say but the legal profession of the country will provide lawyers to prevent them being deported, even after they have committed heinous crimes like EG. raping children

Steve
Steve
5 years ago
Reply to  leonore35

Then extinguish the lawyers and judges that do so. As MAS stated we are in a war. War is a dirty business. Rules go out the window when the war starts.

CreoleGumbo
CreoleGumbo
5 years ago
Reply to  MAS

Well stated.

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
5 years ago
Reply to  MAS

Hunter killers!
Nice work if you can get it.
Where do I sign?

MAS
MAS
5 years ago
Reply to  Dave Glynn

Most likely the US military elite units…

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
5 years ago
Reply to  MAS

Nah’ mate. Give the job to the very best ……………. The SAS!

MAS
MAS
5 years ago
Reply to  Dave Glynn

Sounds good, if the UK doesn’t turn them into Special Jihad Service first…

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
5 years ago
Reply to  MAS

If we keep the T May bitch away from operations I think we’ll be alright.

MAS
MAS
5 years ago
Reply to  Dave Glynn

Best of fortune with that. Y’all need to clean house and do we…

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
5 years ago
Reply to  MAS

Agreed totally mate!

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  MAS

LOL, really.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
5 years ago

Once again France and others of the gutless EU apply a band-aid solution for the citizens and nations security. One suspects if the Eiffel Tower were to collapse under Islamofascist terrorism the finger of blame would point elsewhere. France and its Euro counterparts are under the influence, not of an illicit drug but an illicit cult professing to be a religion. Moreover, overlooking the rape and murder of Jews, or others deemed infidels solely to mitigate the parasitical cult, Islam.

Macron and his Euro counterparts are culpable for every terrorist attack, rape, and murder in their nations. More so, the unbridled anti-Semitism perpetrated throughout the European Union’s retrograding into Islamofascism.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
5 years ago
Reply to  Ziggy46

It’s the 1930s and 40s all over again…..

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
5 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

I couldn’t agree more ladywarrior. I have had this argument with others for quite some time; some folks prefer to live in denial.

notme123
notme123
5 years ago
Reply to  Ziggy46

The EU isn’t gutless, this is all part of their NWO plan.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
5 years ago
Reply to  notme123

Great point, it isn’t happening by chance or at random; the EU leadership as history has confirmed are collaborators and taking graft to meet this NWO.

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
5 years ago

just put a crescent moon on top and call it a day – quit pretending

Poppey
Poppey
5 years ago

While it’s clear something had to be done there, and anti ramming “diversity barriers” are clearly needed, are we being led to believe that no muslim has access to an aircraft and cannot fly one ?

Knock out one of the legs on that tower, with or without explosives and the point is made yet again.

Islam and the muslim faithful IN France do NOT fear you, so over to you President Macron.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago
Reply to  Poppey

Russian taxis …. Are they headed for froggyland?

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
5 years ago
Reply to  Poppey

…they brought down buildings in NY on 9/11….if they want to bring down the Eiffel Tower bad enough they will find a way….the problem is not the Eiffel Tower…it’s the symbol of France that Islam wants to bring down to show the French who is more powerful….them or Islam….

Right now -with a “leader” like Macron-…it’s Islam. The score is France 0, Islam 8.
The French have a history of being pacifists….and have been brought to the brink of extinction before…until we stepped in.

Stop and think about the attack on Paris a couple of years back….if that happened here, how fast would we have been deporting and killing Muslims in America? Paris just added more “security” and kept bringing in more of them at the same time taking more and more freedoms from the French people.

Right now in America we have our own problems….we’ve have been infiltrated by Islam in our government (state, local, federal), Courts, military, law enforcement, universities/schools….thanks to the Muslim Marxist Obama….before we shake our heads and mutter about the stupid French for not stopping Islam taking over their country….we need to look around in our own backyards and stop it here.

You can shake your heads and say we are not as bad as the French….but if I went back through all the stories on Geller’s site over just the last year -and I do keep them – you would see an alarming trend here in America.

The first clue would be that anyone who didn’t want Islam and radical Muslims in America is a “racist” ….Islam and Muslims are NOT A RACE. But that is the false narrative of the Left and Globalists due to the sensitivity of that word that the Left loves to toss around…..for ANY REASON.

Governor Rick Perry allowed Sharia divorces in Texas and a judge in Florida allows Muslims to settle property disputes under Sharia law…in Texas some high school girls were forced to wear hijabs for a day to learn how to “identify” with Muslim women! In Tennessee a couple of years back some children were loaded into a bus and taken to a Mosque to participate in prayers….the girls – of course- were forced to sit in the back while the boys joined the men in “prayer”!
….and recently children in a school in West Virginia were forced to write the Muslim prayer that dedicates that person to Islam…..the excuse by the teacher was that she was teaching the kids calligraphy….because it was invented by the Muslims! Apparently the teacher is a idiot because it was created by the Chinese 3,000 years before Islam.
…they refuse to teach them cursive handwriting anymore….but they can teach them “calligraphy”???

And right here in Vegas in October last year….attack on a concert of mostly young people…that the “authorities” want you to think it was some lone wacko who managed to get his hands on an arsenal, carry that arsenal into a top casino here right past everyone’s nose, hole up in a room with a hooker, and blow out windows and start laying down fire….all by his little ol’ self. AND, he and his mistress had ties to Islam and Antifa!

Not one clear thinking person doesn’t know Paddock was Antifa..the Left’s radical killers who are trained by radical Muslims…..ISIS even claimed him as their own…after the UK concert attack the UK Daily Mail had a story quoting ISIS saying they had three targets in America…..one of them was Las Vegas…..a warning months in advance.

But instead of following that lead our FBI, CIA, and Homeland Security were too busy trying to stop Trump from being President or to take him out once he was sworn in…..right inside our own country’s government are the ones trying to bring us down to the level of France, Germany, Scandinavia, Canada, etc.

And a lot of people’s biggest concern is overpaid thugs kneeling during the National Anthem……”Nero fiddled….while Rome burned”.

santashandler
santashandler
5 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

Well said!
“.but if I went back through all the stories on Geller’s site over just
the last year -and I do keep them – you would see an alarming trend here in America.” Yes, let’s start with the cold-blooded murder of a woman in Minn. by a Somali police officer last year. We are being brought down to the the level of France, Germany, etc., faster than we care to know.

Patricia
Patricia
5 years ago

I’ve shared this to my own Facebook page and wamt to share it to a few groups, but Facebook appears to be timing me out from sharing to groups – won’t give me the window that you fill with the group’s name — though I’ve only made one share to a group today and just seven yesterday.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
5 years ago
Reply to  Patricia

Disqus stopped me from blocking a troll yesterday by saying I had “reached my maximum of how many people I could block.” ???? What Maximum? never heard that before.
Apparently they don’t stop a maximum of Trolls and there is no such thing as a maximum of trolls to Disqus…just those who want to block them from spewing their hate on Geller and Breitbart….
I don’t know how much longer any of us are going to be able to keep posting on Geller and Breitbart….

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

Fwench f*cks don’t care about Jews killed by their muslum overlords but the Eiffel tower must be protected.

Zavrzlama
Zavrzlama
5 years ago

That fortrification of the Eiffel-Tower just stands as an ugly prime-example of french patheticness. I´m mean they´re building glass walls around the Eiffel-Tower while at the same time more and more muslims are born in France…let that sink in!

leonore35
leonore35
5 years ago
Reply to  Zavrzlama

France is doomed and does not know it, recently a reporter said how he saw French couples and families walking about typically with one or even no children, whilst all the Muslim families were walking with two or three kids and usual the wife was pregnant. Do the maths. The education system will soon be swamped with Muslim children.

CreoleGumbo
CreoleGumbo
5 years ago
Reply to  leonore35

The public education in France is already primarily muslim and has been for a good 30 years now. I know because 30 years ago when my children were in elementary school an exchange program appeared between the US and France. 100% of the “French” children sent to the US were North African muslims.

Zavrzlama
Zavrzlama
5 years ago
Reply to  leonore35

Exactly. Same in Sweden, UK and Germany. The educational system is already swamped by them and therefore the educational standards have been lowered very much already and still keep on being lowered just to please these naturally stupid people who will never have the mental capacity to upkeep with european native non muslims. Once the educational system starts to suffer, the situation will dramatically worsen as more and more incapable and uneducated people will be the result of this development, and boom, here comes your sheethole!

notme123
notme123
5 years ago
Reply to  Zavrzlama

same here in US, between them and the illegals from the South.

RiverFred
RiverFred
5 years ago
Reply to  leonore35

10

RCCA
RCCA
5 years ago

Just get a bunch of kite flying Palestinians from Gaza and the bullet proof glass walls are worthless.

leonore35
leonore35
5 years ago
Reply to  RCCA

The tower is made of steel so fire kits will not do more than scorch it!

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  leonore35

I’ve read that Fwance foiled a 9-11 type attack planned by muslums against the Eiffel tower.

RCCA
RCCA
5 years ago
Reply to  leonore35

But they could do a heck of a job on the tourists.

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
5 years ago

The Eiffel Tower has been the scene of many fights.

comment image

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  Sunshine Kid

A dogfight under the Eiffel tower? Somehow I doubt that ever happened — although the US ace of aces, Richard Bong, did fly his P-38 lightning under the Golden Gate bridge.

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
5 years ago

P-51 was flown by William Overstreet Jr. Don’t know who flew the Bf-109.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  Sunshine Kid

Wow, you’re right and he also did loops around the Golden Gate bridge.

leonore35
leonore35
5 years ago

Ho hum I seem to remember the French and other EU leaders lambasting Trump when he proposed a wall to stop illegal migration. WALLS are BAD non democratic, racist, what have you and unbefitting democratic freedom loving countries. It seems the tune is changing.
BTW few people know that the famous Eiffel Tower was intended to be a temporary structure for the Paris Exhibition

Steve
Steve
5 years ago

Long story short it is called being a Dhimmi.

A dhimmī is a historical term referring to non-Muslims living in an Islamic state with legal protection. The word literally means “protected person”.

Except you aren’t protected if you don’t follow the rules to obey, pay the Jizya, house a Muslim in your home, never look at a Muslim, etc.

CreoleGumbo
CreoleGumbo
5 years ago

It would be a lot cheaper to declassify islam as a religion and to deport all muslims who immigrated to France and not allow more in.

ninetyninepct
ninetyninepct
5 years ago
Reply to  CreoleGumbo

Islam isn’t a “religion”, it is a theocracy, a form of governing according to “religious” beliefs.

CreoleGumbo
CreoleGumbo
5 years ago
Reply to  ninetyninepct

That is exactly why it should be declassified as such.

RetiredNavyphotog
RetiredNavyphotog
5 years ago

There are armed soldiers patrolling at the base of the Eiffel Tower….kinda ruins the romance.

minted
minted
5 years ago

Nothing nice about Paris anymore. As soon as you arrive you feel you are in Maghreb, not in France. It’s a horrid sight. There are Africans and muslims everywhere and the city is filthy – a sign of a bad local economy. Mixed with tourist the French seem to be a minority. I stopped visiting Paris due to this problem. And apparently so has 70% of other people since they cannot fill their hotels anymore after the latest terror attacks….

minted
minted
5 years ago

I guess they are building that wall… the wall they object other countries to build.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
5 years ago

Sad. So very sad.
The French refuse to face the fact that they are under siege….they kept putting “security” patches on their country and people to the point they now look like prisoners in their own country….while Islam terrorizes them in their own country and homes.
I hate to tell you this, France…..but I wouldn’t come anywhere near your country. Travelers there have shared pictures of just what a dangerous place you’ve become.
You think your walls and fences spare the Eiffel tower. I direct your attention to NY City and the attack of 9/11…and the buildings the Death Cult of Islam brought down there in Manhattan…enough said.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

Another subtle example of SUBMISSION to Islam. France, you are LOSING!

Tm.
Tm.
5 years ago

Perhaps a third wall might be necessary.
Do you see what happened to us, to the west, to secular countries.
The walls look beautiful. Keep putting up walls around your achievements.
How different was France in decades past. A center where artists gathered, where art thrived, where people sat at cafes and people watched, joy, gaiety.
What have you done? Who are we now? Where did you leave your sanity.T

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

If they damage the Le Tour Eifflel…then even the French will no longer be able to ignore the threat of Islam any longer.

Sponsored
Geller Report
Thanks for sharing!