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Paris spending $22,000,000 to build wall around Eiffel Tower to stop jihad terror attacks

Feb 9, 2017 10:24 am By Robert Spencer

“Sadly, the risk of terrorism hasn’t gone away,” deputy mayor Jean-François Martins said.

Of course it hasn’t, because you and your colleagues keep importing more people among whom are certain to be jihad terrorists. You have brought this problem upon yourselves, and continue to do so.

“It’s not a wall, it’s an aesthetic perimeter.”

Uh huh. It’s a wall. Hope Pope Francis doesn’t get wind of this.

“Paris Builds Barrier Around Eiffel Tower to Limit Terrorism,” by Gregory Viscusi, Bloomberg, February 9, 2017:

Paris is spending 20 million euros ($22 million) to build a protective barrier around the Eiffel Tower to replace temporary structures that were put up after a series of terror attacks.

“Sadly, the risk of terrorism hasn’t gone away,” deputy mayor Jean-François Martins said at a Paris press conference. “It’s not a wall, it’s an aesthetic perimeter.”

Martins wouldn’t confirm a report in Thursday’s Le Parisien newspaper that a clear glass structure would be built around the tower’s esplanade. The form the new structure takes will depend on solutions proposed in response to the city’s call for tenders, he said.

Temporary and movable metal barriers were sporadically thrown up in 2015 and have been in place continuously since France hosted the Euro 2016 soccer championships last summer.

The new perimeter will include the space under the tower, as well as two ponds on either side of it, an area roughly 200 by 300 meters. It must be able to stop bullets and vehicles, he said. Tourists will be free to enter the area after a security check, with payment required only to go up the Tower itself.

Martins said he didn’t think the site of yet another security measure in Paris — where fully armed soldiers on patrol has become a common site — will deter tourists. “What scares tourists is lack of security, not security,” he said. The new structure will be the most visible and permanent change to the Paris landscape in response to terrorists.

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  1. Allan says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 10:41 am

    How many mujahids and leftist collaborators could be rounded up or put down with all that money?

    • gungadin says

      Feb 10, 2017 at 9:02 am

      Save that money and deport them ALL

    • Frank says

      Feb 10, 2017 at 10:44 pm

      I agree , it’s much cheaper to deport muslims.

  2. Don McKellar says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 10:46 am

    A man sits at a desk and hits his fingers with a hammer every few minutes and marvels at how much it hurts — yet it never occurs to him to put down the hammer and take it to the garage and put it away and stop hitting himself. Instead, he puts a leather glove on his hand and keeps hammering away and says: “Sadly the pain of hitting my hand with a hammer isn’t going away.”

    • Sam says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 11:14 am

      Agreed %100. However, I still dont get how people can be so suicidal against Islam in the millions if not billions.

      Look at us in America fighting Trump who wants to protect us from the religion of peace. That is Islam if you have not noticed somehow.(joke)

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 10, 2017 at 3:53 pm

      Spot on, Don.

  3. RichardL says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 10:46 am

    the race between the armour and the projectile will always be won by the projectile.

    We spend so much against defending jihad and at the same time our governments push the source of jihad: islam. Lunacy.

    I hope Trump will change all that and we will all go on the offence. Then islam will crawl back where it belongs: into tent in the desert of Sowdi Barbaria

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 10, 2017 at 3:59 pm

      Got Muslims? Got Jihad.

  4. DFD says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 11:06 am

    As most of you know, I am Anglo-German. I grew up in Berlin. Remove the ‘Anglo’ for a moment, and I say this to the Parisians:

    “We must have still a lot of old bricks lying about, we could cut you a deal, which would reduce the cost. Perhaps even some bits ‘n pieces from old watch towers, Need a broker?

  5. cheryl s. says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 11:19 am

    Why put up ugly barricades in beautiful Paris or, for that matter, have ANY part of France as, No-Go? Wouldn’t it be easier to end ALL muslim immigration and deport the freedom hating, jihadi raging, muslims from every part of France?

  6. Glenn Wilson says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 11:25 am

    France would not have to build a wall around the Eiffel Tower if they deported all the Muslims.

    • JawsV says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 2:30 pm

      Exactly. Muslims and Islam are the problems. France: Deport the Mohammedans! Raze the mosks! Discard all Korans into trash bins! Take your Christian country back!!

    • carpediadem says

      Feb 10, 2017 at 11:54 pm

      Actually it’s the French high-ups who invited all the Muslims they should deal with.

  7. Voytek Gagalka says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 11:34 am

    Here they come: while one type of wall they will denounce, another type of wall, with conveniently changed name for it (a “wall” which they would not call a “wall”), they are proudly about to build. No one will protest? No one will call it “apartheid” wall? Hypocrites of the last resort.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 10, 2017 at 4:11 pm

      Of course it’s an “apartheid” wall–they want to keep out pious Muslims practicing their faith by destroying Infidel “Jahillya”. How “Islamophobic”! sarc/off

      • carpediadem says

        Feb 10, 2017 at 11:56 pm

        I believe Voytek is referring to French hypocrisy over the Israeli security barrier.

  8. Charlotte Magné says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 11:44 am

    This article and the recent one about the cost to Germany due to the migrant Muslims, brought to mind a piece Hugh Fitzgerald wrote a piece back in 2006 – “What is the cost?”
    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/05/fitzgerald-what-is-the-cost

    Having Muslims in western countries is very expensive…and obviously dangerous.

  9. Peter says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 12:34 pm

    What’s the bill for adding in an air defense system? Algerian Jihadists planned to crash an airplane into the Eiffel Tower well before September 11. Add to that the drone threat. And, what about underground tunnels? France and the rest of Europe are going to have spend billions defending themselves from the internal Islamist threat. Why bring in more Muslim Trojan horses?

    • jayell says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 1:02 pm

      All adds up, doesn’t it? The UK have already added many £millions to the MI5 security spending because of muslims, and that’s on top of the annual £5million it costs to support all the muslim ‘single mothers’ (sic), plus the extra cash on top of that for all their excessive offspring and housing benefits, the 50% muslim males and 75% muslim females unemployed, 400% excess costs as a result of the 400% excess muslim prisoners in UK jails, etc., etc.,…… How much is that lot so far? And the Germans have just announced that all their wonderful new arrivals have been costing them 38 million euros just in support costs, I believe (what about the rest of it?). I read just recently that some authoritatve body has now come up with the realisation that all these migrants are really just a bit of a drain on the host economies and add absolutely nothing. Except perhaps crime and destruction.

  10. Shmued B Dovid says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 12:54 pm

    The muslims should pay for this and all the other security expences.They need to be taxed very heavily to pay for all the extra policing and army patrols and of course intelligence costs.

  11. Al says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 1:21 pm

    There’s a well-known story about the footbridge next to the legendary city of Chelm, whose many broken planks caused travelers to plummet into the troubled waters below. The wise men of Chelm considered the situation carefully for seven days and seven nights before coming up with an ingenious solution: We must build a hospital under the bridge to care for those who fall.

  12. Bill says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 1:27 pm

    When the Pope recovers from his unanswered prayers for the defeat of the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl, I expect that he will issue a solemn announcement advising France to build “bridges not walls”.

  13. Angemon says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 2:21 pm

    “Sadly, the risk of terrorism hasn’t gone away,” deputy mayor Jean-François Martins said at a Paris press conference. “It’s not a wall, it’s an aesthetic perimeter.”

    Like the one that Trump is going to build on the border?

  14. Rev g says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 2:40 pm

    Economic warfare drives the west to drain it’s resources to defend, population warfare infiltrates and has an economic warfare, all while terror increases.
    Yet apologists fret over what it must be that they are missing, and Islamic psy-ops keep those simple minds confused.
    Stay armed and alert.

  15. Guest says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 2:57 pm

    Maybe if they were serious about protecting and trusting their people this wouldn’t have happened

  16. Eric Jones says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 4:25 pm

    Elect Marie Le Pen.

    Eric

  17. Lucia Bartoli says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 4:26 pm

    Hmmm, had they acted at the right time maybe $22million would have built a real wall keeping those islamic terrorists OUT of FRANCE. Now you are trying to stop the dam from bursting by putting a finger in one hole…ain’t gonna work

  18. theAcefromSpace says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 6:05 pm

    If they were smart, they would just go ahead and scrap it out before it’s turned in to the tallest minaret in France. They’d save a lot of money and avoid the humiliation.

  19. davej says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 6:26 pm

    Sadly, this is the Islamic defense tax, now and forever more – unless they confront the threats head on. Cheaper and more effective to demolish the mosques and deport the troublemakers.

  20. Baucent says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 7:13 pm

    I’ve read one dishonest media report saying the barriers were put up for Euro 2016 soccer championship, but implying that the reason was to control crowds rather than prevent a terrorist attack.

  21. Stan Lee says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 1:20 am

    Obviously, the “do-nothing” French government believes if it “thinks” the end of Muslim terrorism on its road to conquest, then Islam will go away.
    They allowed the Muslims to take a scheme into an active plan, and they think the Muslims will just say, “Excuse us, on our way to conquering France, we did it only for Islam, and not against France”. “Don’t interfere with our mission, or all of our cordiality will have to be sacrificed”.
    There you are now, France, in the midst of standing on the sidelines while Islam kicks you about like a football.
    If you cannot bring your terribly passive selves to stop these Islamic creatures in their tracks, deport many, imprison the law breakers, respect your own law as the law of France, and no other law can be higher, you will lose. I don’t want you to lose, but you are the people of the nation France, and you must fight to keep her from people who care nothing about your tricolor or culture.
    Do not waste anymore time, you actually have very little time left!.

  22. Rufolino says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 3:17 am

    A new chapter in the story of European art and architecture thus opens.

    This chapter will be sad and horrible and stretches before us into the future.

    How long will it be before the next, and the next, treasured cultural artefact has to be imprisoned for its own good ?

    To protect it from the millions of uncivilized haters now in Europe’s midst.

  23. William says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 3:58 am

    Keep importing Muslims, keep living with ‘terrorism’… just common sense.
    All that money should be spent in rounding up and deporting every Muslim
    that is not willing to integrate and obey the laws of France.

  24. Expat88 says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 4:22 am

    It is ironic that Europe got rid of six million Jews and now imports millions of Muslims. It is the substitution of productive people for destructive people.

  25. Anne Smith says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 8:36 am

    Whatever structures they decide to throw billions of euros at it will do them no good in the end. 19 Muslims killed 3,500 people in the twin towers by the simple expedient of flying into them.
    A truck was used to kill the people in Nice, and also in Berlin.
    The Muslim terrorists are actually very good at killing people in a cheap, effective and economical way and showing up the blinkered thinking of the host nation’s defence methods. They will find an easy way round this wall. When you have people (and their little children) prepared to commit suicide it makes attacks so much easier.
    Prevention is so much better than cure. Pity our European politicians are such useless strategists.

    • DFD says

      Feb 12, 2017 at 7:16 am

      “…Pity our European politicians are such useless strategists.”

      On the contrary. Their strategy is is working, don’t you see that?

      Anne, you don’t really believe that all this happens by accident? All their actions, overlapping, coordinated, one action supporting the other, and all of it practically simultaneously.

      Think dear Lady, think.

  26. Heather M. says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 10:25 am

    the law in Canada is for the attackers ,don,t say anything when they rape and behead you .Hamas is Muslim Brotherhood and PM of canada is one of them .Trudeau set up a warroom in his office to fight trump and help kill us off.trudeaus brother lives in Iran .Conflict of interest but Iran won and payed by Soros.

  27. gravenimage says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 3:52 pm

    Paris spending $22,000,000 to build wall around Eiffel Tower to stop jihad terror attacks
    ………………………

    One of the aesthetic beauties of the Eiffel Tower is seeing it across the Champ de Mars–now this will be interrupted by a security fence. And why? This is the reason:

    https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Observer/Pix/pictures/2011/4/9/1302372471573/A-woman-wearing-niqab-wal-007.jpg?w=700&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=546d817045685da0bb6b9ee32a793042

    Mohammedans infesting the City of Light, and endangering her art and her people.

  28. carpediadem says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 11:23 pm

    The French building a wall?

    Let’s see what is it they accuse Israel of all the time?

    Apartheid! Separation!

  29. Ade says

    Feb 12, 2017 at 5:26 am

    We can’t build walls around everything .. what a bloody stupid idea ..
    I want to have a word with whoever is in charge !

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