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According to a story in this morning’s edition of The Guardian, French police have discovered a series of tunnels, apparently still in use, practically right under the Eiffel Tower.

Climbing down into a drain they found a desk, a closed circuit video camera and some rudimentary security designed to scare people off, and then…

Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, “like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs”.

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers.

The cave beside it had been turned into a small bar, and everything was run off a professional electricity system that they brought the French electric company to see three days later, only to discover the lines had been cut and a note left behind: ‘Do not try to find us.’

According to Expatica’s telling of the story, ‘there are a good 10 others’ hidden under the French capital.

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