00:00The Eiffel Tower is set to reopen on Tuesday after staff staged a walkout a day prior over the removal
00:07of female staffers to accommodate a visit by a Hindu religious group.
00:11The operating company that runs the Paris landmark, SETE, acknowledged that the Hindu delegation had requested the visit be organized
00:18so as to limit interactions with women.
00:21SETE later said that these conditions should not have been accepted and announced that the global hotspot was due to
00:27reopen on Tuesday following a meeting between staff and management.
00:31Eiffel Tower staff said in a statement that it condemned professional instructions that led to female employees being sidelined and
00:38replaced during the visit by the delegation and subsequently went on strike.
00:42They detailed that female employees were given instructions to make themselves invisible in order to welcome the delegation, adding that
00:50they were shocked by the incident.
00:52A slew of politicians and lawmakers, including Paris Deputy Mayor Emmanuel Gregoire and President of the National Assembly Yal-Bron
00:59-Pivet,
01:00condemned the incident which they say undermined French values and citizens to please foreign visitors.
01:06BAPS, the Hindu religious group in question, apologized for any pain or inconvenience caused by the incident in a written
01:13statement shared on X.
01:15The group said it got in direct contact with SETE as to avoid any disruptions to other tourists given the
01:20size of their delegation,
01:22stressing that to the best of their knowledge, no one was prevented access to the tower.
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