According to the newspaper "Tharros" with reference to UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which was registered in the List of incoming Reports and Applications (Liste des rapports entrants et des applications) on March 27, at the Secretariat of its headquarters UNESCO headquarters in Paris, the mayor of Paris calls for the "immediate removal of the Eiffel Tower dummy, which is a caricature of disgraceful and highly aesthetic insult to French culture and world architectural intellect, and is located in a small part of the Hellas"!
The report of Bertrand Delanoe
The report of the mayor of Paris was delivered to the French Ministry of Culture and the Greek Embassy in Paris and was also sent to the Greek National Commission for UNESCO and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
As Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Friday on its website www.afp.com: "The war in Greece was declared by Bertrand Delanoe, the socialist mayor of Paris, for a replica of the world-famous trademark of the city of Paris, Eiffel Tower, in a small provincial town in the Peloponnese ".
According to AFP: "It is not the idea of building the model in the Greek provincial town itself that infuriated Bertrand Delanoe, but its architectural design and aesthetic intellect of the construction, without any application for permission and consulting technical specifications and technical specifications" .
Using particularly harsh expressions, the mayor of Paris, in his report, speaks of "frivolous mixed architecture", "mediocre, hasty and hasty architecture" and a "fantastically ugly and tasteless dummy, which is a caricature and ugly caricature aesthetic insult to French culture and the world architectural intellect ". "I would like to express my deep opposition to this construction, which was" erected "in the Greek provincial town, without the consent of the city of Paris", the socialist mayor emphasizes, calling on UNESCO to intervene for its immediate removal! »
The Greek side
"This is the personal opinion of the mayor of Paris and has no legal significance and substance," a spokesman for the Greek Embassy in Paris told AFP, referring to a diplomatic incident due to the style and of the spirit of the words of the representative of Bertrand Delanoe who went to the Embassy to deliver the report!
The Secretariat of the Greek National Commission for UNESCO, invited by AFP to comment on the Delanoe report, after expressing their surprise at the reaction of the mayor of Paris, simply noted: "We study the petition and will respond by providing explanations and clarifications to the UNESCO Commission, while expressing our views clearly, after cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the local Municipality ". They are said to consider the reaction "pulled" and the request for the removal of the Eiffel Tower dummy "funny".