The Moulin Rouge is positioned in northern Paris and is without doubt one of the most visited landmarks within the metropolis.

Paris, France:

The sails of the windmill above the Moulin Rouge cabaret, one of the well-known landmarks in Paris, collapsed in a single day.

Nobody was damage and there was no threat of additional collapse, whereas the cabaret will reopen on Thursday night.

Whereas the rationale for the accident was not but recognized, the Moulin Rouge’s director Jean-Victor Clerico stated there was no signal of “foul play”, including the trigger was “clearly a technical downside”.

“We’ll rise to the problem,” Clerico stated, including that “the Moulin Rouge is 135 years on, so it is seen every kind of issues”.

The incident round 1:45 am (2345 GMT on Wednesday), after the nightspot closed, comes because the countdown to the July-August Olympic Video games is ticking with tens of millions of tourists anticipated.

Tons of of 1000’s of individuals watch the Moulin Rouge’s day by day reveals annually, with many extra stopping to look from the surface on the landmark on the foot of the Montmartre hill.

The collapse would “particularly transfer the showbusiness world and everybody who loves Paris,” Tradition Minister Rachida Dati posted on X, previously Twitter.

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo instructed AFP she felt “nice ache” on the injury to a landmark “well-known the world over”.

“We’re placing every part into getting the sails again onto our iconic windmill as shortly as doable,” the Moulin Rouge stated in an announcement, with each metropolis corridor and the tradition ministry providing assist.

The sails had been rebuilt twenty years in the past to make them lighter, director Clerico stated, including that there are checks each two months — the latest on March 20.

An AFP journalist noticed employees loading the marginally twisted sails of the windmill into the mattress of a truck for elimination, whereas obstacles have been arrange across the Moulin Rouge.

The letters M, O and U had additionally toppled from the identify spelled out on the constructing’s facade.

“I can not imagine it,” stated Exauce, a cook dinner on the cabaret who requested to not give his second identify.

He noticed the sails on the bottom as he arrived for work round 8:00 am.

“It is as if the highest had been chopped off the Eiffel Tower, it hurts me,” stated Daniel, a 58-year-old who stated he passes the Moulin Rouge each day on his option to work.

“I hope they restore it quickly,” he added.

600,000 guests yearly

The Moulin Rouge, with its distinctive pink windmill sails constructed of wooden and metallic, is positioned in northern Paris and is without doubt one of the most visited landmarks within the metropolis.

Director Clerico stated there could be “no affect” on the Moulin Rouge programme from the sails’ fall.

Round 600,000 folks annually watch its two day by day reveals held year-round, retaining 450 workers in work.

Often known as the birthplace of the trendy dance type the can-can, it opened its doorways in October 1889 on the foot of the Montmartre hill.

It shortly grew to become successful and a cease to take a look at its facade or catch a present inside is a should on most vacationers’ guidelines for the French capital — particularly because the eponymous 2001 movie by Baz Luhrmann.

The one critical accident the landmark has endured was a fireplace that erupted throughout works in 1915, which compelled the venue to shut for 9 years.

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