Eiffel Tower Chief Steps Down After Hindu Delegation Visit Row

Patrick Branco Ruivo will depart from the Société d'Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel at the end of the year, The Independent reports.

The precise nature of the accommodation made for the delegation, and who authorised it, is not established by the available reporting. What is confirmed is that Branco Ruivo will leave his position at the company operating the Paris landmark at year-end, and that his departure follows the episode involving female staff.

The incident raises a question that the resignation itself does not answer: whether any decision to sideline female staff reflected institutional policy, individual misjudgement, or a negotiated concession to visiting preferences — and who in the chain of authority signed off on it. A resignation can close a personnel file without resolving the governance question that made it necessary.

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