A picture-snapping French tourist scrambled up the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday to take a picture — the third security breach in a year at the famed span and top terror target, authorities said.
Police sources said Jonathan Souid, 23, climbed over a 4-foot fence and managed to get 20 feet up a bridge cable on the Brooklyn side before an NYPD cop on foot patrol spotted him over the Manhattan-bound bridge.
The officer told Souid to get down and he complied, and police then took him into custody.
Souid is being questioned at the 84th Precinct.
Souid came to the US from France on Nov. 6 and planned to fly back home today, a police source said.
In July, in a massive security breach, two German artists got past the cops and swapped American flags atop the bridge for a white flag as part of a stunt.
The stolen American flags have since been returned to New York after the artists dropped them off at the US embassy in Germany.
A Russian daredevil then climbed to the top of the Brooklyn Bridge to take a picture Aug. 24.
The NYPD said after the snafus that they would have cops be posted where the bridge’s suspension cables meet the security gates.
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