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Heavily-armed police have evacuated the area around the Paris Eiffel tower and the surrounding Champ de Mars park in a false alarm.
Anti-terror police were spotted at the Pullman Hotel on Avenue de Suffren near the Eiffel tower, according to an eyewitness, who lives along Champ de Mars. He declined to be identified.
Another witnesses also confirmed the presence of heavily armed police at the site of the hotel.
One man said: 'Dozens of cops with automatic weapons taking cover and training their weapons on the Pullman hotel'.
The witness said the police later lifted the cordon keeping people out of the hotel.
The incident was later described by the French interior ministry as a false alarm …. http://www.dailymail.co.uk