The Eiffel towers and Montparnasse Tower will sparkle Saturday evening at 8 p.m., to close the movement initiated by their American acolyte, the Empire State Building, entitled #HeroesShineBright in honor of those whom the coronavirus has placed in the front line, announced the organizers. At 8 p.m., " the two towers will sparkle with crystal clear white at the same time as the applause of Parisians will resound in the capital " to salute " the unfailing courage of the nursing staff faced with the coronavirus pandemic ", announced in a press release, the operating company of the Eiffel Tower, SETE. Then, at 8:30 p.m., "the white flicker of the edges and the top of the Montparnasse tower will then accelerate by turning to red to mark its support even more intensely, like a beating heart ", while" the Eiffel Tower will deploy at the same time its signature flicker ", specifies the society.
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In New York, the Empire State Building launched this operation on April 24 in tribute to all those on the front line in the fight against the Covid-19, and each evening the New York building dedicates " its illumination - different color - to an organization intervening in the fight against the pandemic: the nursing staff, the New York transport company MTA, the police or the American army ”, one specifies from the same source.
While the Coronavirus epidemic has killed more than 240,000 people worldwide, according to an AFP count updated on Saturday, and shutdown more than half of humanity, several tours around the world will take part in this operation, and will light up " in red flashing like a beating heart ", like the Euromast in Rotterdam, 360 Chicago, La Burj Khalifa (United Arab Emirates), the CN tower (Canada), the tower Macau (China), Busan Tower (South Korea), Ostankino TV Tower (Russia), Tallinn TV Tower (Estonia) or the UFO Tower (Slovakia).
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Since March, the Eiffel Tower, 324 meters high, has been paying homage every evening to those mobilized in the face of the coronavirus, by displaying " Thank you " and by projecting messages encouraging them to stay at home. The French, like many of their European neighbors, have got into the habit of applauding healthcare workers at their windows at 8 p.m.
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