Paris scraps Big Wheel attraction
(Artdaily.org)

Paris councillors on Wednesday voted to axe the city`s prominent riverside Ferris wheel, the French capital`s version of the London Eye. Run by `fairground king` Marcel Campion who has also seen his Christmas market on the Champs-Elysees scrapped because authorities deemed it too tacky, the attraction will be closed from July 2018. City councillors voted almost unanimously against granting him a fresh licence for the `Grande Roue`, which has sat intermittently on the Place de la Concorde near the Louvre museum since 1993. Councillors said getting rid of the wheel would help protect the area`s `historic visual appearance`. They indicated that they were not against a Ferris wheel being erected somewhere else, said deputy mayor Bruno Julliard. It could potentially be set up in time for next year`s Christmas holidays, he said, adding: `Anyone could apply to run it, even Marcel Campion.`