The Eiffel Tower will not open for the 5th consecutive day, assures the CGT. If it were to continue beyond Sunday afternoon, this strike would be the longest in the recent history of the tour, regularly punctuated by social movements.
In the fall of 1998, the Iron Lady was kept closed for six and a half days. This conflict occurs in the middle of the winter school holidays and five months before the Olympic Games (July 26 - August 11).. The economic balance of the Eiffle Tower, which in 2023 returned to higher attendance than it was before Covid-19, with 6.3 million visitors, was weakened by some 130 million euros in shortfalls.