Three employees of a fire protection company were stuck for more than four hours in an elevator at the Eiffel Tower. The elevator got stuck between the first floor and the ground floor.
To put them out of their distress, the five firefighters responsible for rescuing the victims had no choice but to abseil the three men out. “It's exactly the same mechanism as the tourist elevators. Imagine if that happened with visitors during the Olympics. It is absolutely essential that it be renovated,” says one victim.