Following a spate of terror attacks including a machete attack last September, Parisian officials are making moves to protect the city’s many monuments. Most recently, they’ve announced that they’ll enclose the base of the Eiffel Tower with a glass wall. Currently, the area is cordoned off with a series of metal grills, which were put in place in advance of the Euro 2016 football tournament. The new, permanent wall will be 2.5 meters high and made of bulletproof glass. It will run along the Quai Branly and the Avenue Gustave-Eiffel, as well as bisect the parks on either side of the Tower. Whereas, not long ago, visitors could simply stroll through the iron legs of Paris’ most iconic monument, now they will have to pass through security checks. In total, the wall is expected to cost around €20 million.
That permanent infrastructure is being built to preemptively thwart a hypothetical terror attack means the aim of terrorism is succeeding.
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The space could be a "killing ground" if a terrorist or group of terrorists do get in because people will not be able to get out? Then there is the cost of the wall and the costs to maintain it and the costs of the guards and their training and equipment. The destruction of the ambience and urban fabric caused by the wall is even worse than the costs. All because of.........?
Build that walll seems to be the new mantra. Isis and Bannon have so much in common. They want to live with clones of themselves and kill everyone that isn't them.
That permanent infrastructure is being built to preemptively thwart a hypothetical terror attack means the aim of terrorism is succeeding.
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