The wings of the Moulin Rouge, the “red mill”, the world-famous Parisian cabaret, have fallen.
Wings of the Moulin Rouge fell overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, and no injuries were reported, the Paris fire department said, adding that there was no longer any risk of collapse. The causes of the fall are currently unknown. “We don’t know what happened, it happened between 02:00 and 03:00 a.m. No one was injured,” the company spokesman said, adding that the last show of the day had ended at 01:15 a.m.
“It is the first time such an accident has occurred since the creation of the Moulin Rouge on October 6, 1889,” as the company told AFP, which had “no information” on the cause of the accident. “Fortunately, it happened after the closing,” added the same source, stating that “every week, the technical management of the cabaret checks the mechanism of the wings of the mill and had not found any problems.”
The Moulin Rouge in Paris, without the wings of the mill / Photo: X (Twitter)
Moulin Rouge wings fallen on the sidewalk in front of the store / Photo: X (Twitter)
The only serious accident that happened to the “temple of kan kan” was a fire due to work in 1915, according to the cabaret, because of which it had to close for 9 years. The famous cabaret located at the foot of the hill of Montmartre is synonymous with the crazy Parisian nights along with the Lido and the can-can dancers. Thousands of visitors take pictures in front of it every day, and it will celebrate its 135th anniversary in October 6.
The Moulin Rouge is open daily and presents two shows every night welcoming 850 visitors daily or 600,000 annually.
With information from APE – BEE, AFPReuters
