Three employees of a fire protection company, Deep Isolation, were stuck for several hours in the elevator of the south pillar of the Parisian monument reserved for staff. “I saw my life passing by and one of my colleagues really thought it was the end,” says Singh Gagandip, one of the raiders.

The cause of the technical problem? A problem in the Elevator rolling system which was “burst” The elevator has traveled 8,760 km in 2023 and “makes around a hundred trips per day”