{"id":94420,"date":"2025-07-26T15:41:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T15:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94420\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T15:41:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T15:41:31","slug":"french-tourist-arrested-for-climbing-nycs-williamsburg-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94420\/","title":{"rendered":"French tourist arrested for climbing NYC&#8217;s Williamsburg Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A French tourist was arrested early Friday for climbing to the top of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dot\/html\/infrastructure\/williamsburg-bridge.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Williamsburg Bridge<\/a>, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Cops were called to the East River span at about 2:15 a.m. after Louis de Lestrange, 21, was seen climbing the Manhattan tower.<\/p>\n<p>NYPD Aviation, Harbor, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/bureaus\/patrol\/citywide-operations.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emergency Services<\/a> units were called in to grab Lestrange, but by the time they began climbing up the bridge, he was already on his way down, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Police grabbed Lestrange, who lives in Paris, on the bridge\u2019s bicycle path, charging him with reckless endangerment, criminal trespass, disorderly conduct, and violating local law.<\/p>\n<p>He provided police his French passport when he was arrested, but it wasn\u2019t immediately clear where he was staying while he was in New York.<\/p>\n<p>His arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court was pending on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: July 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A French tourist was arrested early Friday for climbing to the top of the Williamsburg Bridge, police said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":94421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,2451,3059,5295,1370,728,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5293,5321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-94420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-county","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-nyc-crime","23":"tag-sub-county-region","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114920297828940567","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}