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法国相关部门已启动调查。此前，巴黎埃菲尔铁塔的女性员工因一个印度教宗教团体的私人到访被调离岗位，引发员工罢工，导致这座标志性景点于周一关闭。
埃菲尔铁塔员工工会代表黛安·达瓦纳对路透社表示，一个约有100人、隶属于博科萨努瓦尔·阿克沙尔·普鲁肖塔姆·斯瓦米纳拉扬桑斯哈（又称BAPS）的印度教团体于周六到访该景点，“女性员工被要求离开工作岗位，以便安排男性员工顶班”。
“这绝对让员工们，尤其是女性员工们无法接受，她们都因所遭遇的待遇和事件本身感到屈辱，”达瓦纳说道，并补充称管理层已就此事多次道歉。
博科萨努瓦尔·阿克沙尔·普鲁肖塔姆·斯瓦米纳拉扬桑斯哈（BAPS）的僧侣于2026年9月3日在巴黎塞纳河举行仪式性游行前，在埃菲尔铁塔前参加宗教仪式。肯佐·特里布约亚尔 / 法新社通过盖蒂图片社拍摄
周一，在景点关闭的情况下，她表示：“周末期间紧张局势升级，因此今早员工们决定召开会议：首先是与管理层展开对话，其次是确保女性员工今后在公司再也不会受到这样的对待。”
巴黎市长伊曼纽尔·格雷瓜尔周一表示，员工们的“不满是合理的”，并补充称将“尽快”启动调查。
“这种情况绝不能被容忍，”他在X平台的帖子中写道。“男女平等绝不会止步于我们历史古迹的脚下，在这座城市的任何地方都必须坚持。这一原则必须在所有地方、对所有人都得到贯彻。”
运营埃菲尔铁塔的埃菲尔铁塔运营公司对法新社表示，BAPS代表团曾要求其到访期间限制“与女性的接触”，并补充称“本不应接受这类条件”。
BAPS的苦行僧，即僧侣，不仅发誓要禁欲，还被禁止与女性接触。不过，这一规定仅适用于苦行僧，而非该宗教的所有信徒。
与印度执政党存在关联
BAPS是一个印度教教派，被认为与印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪及其执政的印度人民党关系密切。
2021年的一起诉讼指控该组织从印度贩运低种姓工人，以极低薪酬在美国各地的寺庙从事恶劣工作，涉及新泽西州、加利福尼亚州、得克萨斯州、佐治亚州和伊利诺伊州。工人们认为，他们的两名同事在新泽西州寺庙工地工作时，因吸入硅尘患上可预防的肺病身亡，该寺庙是印度以外规模最大的同类建筑。
周日，也就是埃菲尔铁塔到访事件的次日，莫迪通过视频连线出席了巴黎一座新BAPS印度教寺庙的落成仪式，称其为“印法文化关系的新里程碑”。
BAPS巴黎寺庙在X平台的一份声明中写道：“我们谨向任何因这一情况受到伤害或不便的人致以诚挚歉意。”
该声明未提及是否曾要求将女性员工调离岗位。BAPS未立即回复哥伦比亚广播公司新闻请求澄清的置评请求。
法国中右翼总理加布里埃尔·阿塔尔周一在X平台的帖子中表示：“在法国，任何文化、任何信仰、任何崇拜，都没有任何人或任何事可以 dictate 女性的位置。”（注：原文此处为英文“dictate”，为保留原文引用语境，译文保留了该词的原文，或可译为“规定”，但为贴合总理发言的语气，此处保留原文更符合新闻翻译的客观原则）
France opens investigation after female Eiffel Tower staff removed for Hindu group’s visit
September 8, 2026 / 8:13 AM EDT / CBS News
French authorities have launched an investigation after female employees at Paris’s Eiffel Tower were taken off duty for a private visit by a Hindu religious group, leading to a staff strike and Monday closure at the iconic landmark.
Eiffel Tower staff union representative Diane Davoine told Reuters a group of 100 or so people linked to the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha Hindu group, also known as BAPS, visited the site on Saturday, and “women were asked to leave their places of work in order to place men there.”
“That absolutely does not go down well with the employees, with women obviously, who are all humiliated by what happened, by the way some were treated,” Davoine said, adding management had repeatedly apologized for what happened.
Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Sanstha (BAPS) Hindu monks take part in a religious ceremony in front of the Eiffel Tower before a ceremonial river parade on the river Seine in Paris on September 3, 2026. Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD /AFP via Getty Images
Speaking Monday, with the monument closed, she said: “Tensions mounted over the weekend, so this morning, the employees decided to meet: first, to open a dialogue with management, and second, to ensure that women are never treated this way at the company again.”
Paris Mayor Emmanuel Gregoire said Monday the employees’ “dissatisfaction is legitimate,” adding an investigation would be launched “as quickly as possible.”
“It is not acceptable that such conditions can be tolerated,” he said in a post on X. “Equality between women and men will never stop at the foot of our historical monuments, nor anywhere in this city. It must be applied everywhere, for everyone.”
The Société d’Exploitation de la tour Eiffel, which runs the tower, told the AFP news agency that the BAPS delegation had asked for their visit to have limited “interactions with women,” adding, “These conditions should not have been accepted.”
BAPS sadhus, or monks, are not only sworn to celibacy but also prohibited from having contact with women. Though, this only applies to sadhus, not all followers of the religion.
Ties to India’s ruling party
BAPS is a Hindu denomination seen as having a close relationship with India Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling BJP party.
A 2021 lawsuit accused the group of trafficking low-caste workers from India to work in dire conditions and for paltry pay on temples in the U.S., including in New Jersey, California, Texas, Georgia and Illinois. Workers believe two of their colleagues died from a preventable lung disease caused by inhaling silica dust while working on the New Jersey temple, the largest such building outside of India.
On Sunday, a day after the Eiffel Tower visit, Modi appeared via video link during the inauguration of a new BAPS Hindu temple in Paris, hailing it as a “new milestone in the cultural relations between India and France.”
In a statement on X, the BAPS Paris temple wrote, “We wish to offer our sincere apologies to anyone who may have been hurt or inconvenienced by this situation.”
They did not address whether they had asked for female staff to be taken off duty. BAPS did not immediately respond to a CBS News request for clarification.
France’s centre-right prime minister, Gabriel Attal, said in a post on X Monday that “in France, no culture, no belief, no worship, nothing nor anyone can come dictate to women their place.”
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