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The mill wheels at the Paris landmark Moulin Rouge have collapsed. The letters of the MOU were also torn down.
Paris – The mill wheels of the famous Paris Moulin Rouge in France have collapsed. The fire department announced this on Thursday.
Cause unclear: Moulin Rouge mill wheels collapsed
According to the fire department, no one was injured in the accident. It is still unclear how the collapse occurred. It was also said that there was no longer any risk of collapse.
In a video that a French journalist shared via X/Twitter, you can see the red mill wheels – some of them very bent – lying on the ground. They take up the entire sidewalk in front of the theater. It reaches thousands of people within a very short time.
Also damaged letters of the Paris cabaret
Through the falling wings there should be loud 20min.ch The facade of the famous Paris cabaret was also damaged. The letters of the MOU are said to have been torn off during the fall and also landed on the ground. As BFM TV reports, the broken wings of the Moulin Rouge were still visible under a green tarpaulin on the site on Thursday morning (April 25).
The revue theater is a tourist magnet. It opened in 1889 – the same year that the Eiffel Tower was completed in the French capital. Among other things, the Moulin Rouge is considered the birthplace of the cancan dance.
![Moulin Rouge in Paris.](https://www.merkur.de/assets/images/34/417/34417892-moulin-rouge-in-paris-QmBG.jpg)
The Parisians and French are horrified in the comments on social media. “A piece of French history on the floor of the street,” writes one woman, for example. “Quite a shock,” someone else added. Another woman wrote: “Luckily it wasn’t the whole building that collapsed.” (jh/dpa)
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