巴黎鐵塔炸彈虛驚疏散千人

Sin Chew Daily  

 2013-03-31

法國巴黎埃菲爾鐵塔30日晚因炸彈警報疏散約千五名遊客，在關閉兩個小時後重新對遊客開放。

Approximately one thousand five tourists were evacuated from the Eiffel Tower of Paris, France,because of a bomb alert. The tower was shut down for 2 hours before it was re-opened to visitors.

當地時間22時15分看到，警方在埃菲爾鐵塔周圍設立的警戒線已經撤除。

The police cordon set up around the Eiffel Tower was removed around 22:15 local time.

從巴黎郊區打來的一通匿名電話，揚言將在晚間9時30分（香港時間今晨4時30分）發動攻擊。

An anonymous phone call from the suburbs of Paris, threatened to attack in 21:30 local time (Hong Kong time this morning at 4:30 ).

警方出動警犬搜索爆裂物，並在艾菲爾鐵塔周邊拉上安全警戒線，並緊急疏散了現場約1500名遊客和工作人員。警方還出動經過特殊訓練的警犬，對鐵塔所在區域進行檢查，以尋找爆炸物。

The police sent a police dog in search for explosives, and set up the security cordon around the Eiffel Tower, , and also emergency evacuated around 1500 visitors and staff. The police also sent specially trained dogs to check the Tower Area to look for explosives

警方表示，在巴黎針對歷史古蹟和公共場所的炸彈警報每年都有，警方一般對此類警報都會認真對待。

Police said bomb alarms for historical monuments and public places in Paris happens every year, but bomb alerts are always taken seriously.

法國媒體報道說，警方負責反恐的部門要對30日的事件開展調查。

French media reported that the police department responsible for counter-terrorism will investigate the event.

近年來，埃菲爾鐵塔多次因炸彈警報而緊急疏散遊客。法國媒體認為，30日是周末，恰逢復活節假期，威脅對埃菲爾鐵塔發動襲擊的匿名電話有意在敏感時期製造混亂。

In recent years, the Eiffel Tower had emergency evacuation of tourists for everal times. French media thinks that the anonymous phone threats of attacks against the Eiffel Tower intends to create chaos in the sensitive period that is a weekend, which coincide with the Easter holidays, .

艾菲爾鐵塔過去曾偶爾因這類警告而展開疏散，至少去年有1次和2011年兩次。324米高的艾菲爾鐵塔是全球數一數二的高人氣觀光景點，每年吸引數百萬遊客造訪。

Eiffel Tower had occasionally commenced evacuation results of such warnings , with at least once last year and twice in 2011. The 324-meter-high Eiffel Tower is one of the world's leading high-popular tourist attraction, attracts millions of tourists each year visit.

（香港明報）

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