Bulletproof glass barrier to be installed at Eiffel Tower
A 2.5 metre-high (8-foot) bulletproof glass wall is set to be built around the Eiffel Tower, the tower's management and the City of Paris said.
A 2.5 metre-high (8-foot) bulletproof glass wall is set to be built around the Eiffel Tower, the tower's management and the City of Paris said.
The 324-metre-high tower, which gets about seven million visitors a year, already has protective metal fencing around its base, erected temporarily for the Euro football championship of 2016.
Work for the new barrier will begin later this year, the mayor's office said.
The cost of the project will be around 20 million euros ($21.36 million), le Parisien newspaper said.
Some tourists are not convinced that the new security measure will stop a determined attacker.
Several security alerts have been raised in Paris's iconic landmark. Early this month, an unarmed man was arrested following an alert.
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