PARIS (Reuters) - An Internet company that planned to throw envelopes of cash to passers-by from the top of a bus in Paris had to cancel the publicity stunt for security reasons after thousands of people turned up, police said on Saturday. About 5,000 people gathered near the Eiffel Tower, with groups spilling into neighboring streets and bursting through crowd barriers before the planned handout of banknotes by the online marketing company Mailorama.fr. ... Police in riot gear were called in and there were around 10 arrests. "We couldn't anticipate that there would be so many people," Stephane Boukris, a spokesman for the organizers told France Info radio.
PARIS (Reuters) - An Internet company that planned to throw envelopes of cash to passers-by from the top of a bus in Paris had to cancel the publicity stunt for security reasons after thousands of people turned up, police said on Saturday.
About 5,000 people gathered near the Eiffel Tower, with groups spilling into neighboring streets and bursting through crowd barriers before the planned handout of banknotes by the online marketing company Mailorama.fr.
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Police in riot gear were called in and there were around 10 arrests.
"We couldn't anticipate that there would be so many people," Stephane Boukris, a spokesman for the organizers told France Info radio.
