Paris - Fire at Notre Dame Cathedral, Apr 2019

[CoverMeCagney]

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[Cool Cats]

I love your cat avatar!

I started out with the internet famous cat Venus as my avatar...

Venus the Two-Faced Cat a Mystery

 

[Cool Cats]

Double

 

[teedie2]

It's been almost a year since that disastrous fire, and it seems like it's only been a few weeks. How can a year fly by so fast?

 

[ZaZara]

Easter celebrations in the Notre Dame cathedral NOW

"Everyone" in hazmat suits and at a safe distance.

There is a live broadcast, but for some reason I get no sound.

EN DIRECT - Regardez la cérémonie exceptionnelle organisée au cœur de Notre-Dame

 

[FrostOwl]

The work of removing the melted scaffolding after the fire have begun: Work starts to remove melted Notre-Dame scaffolding

 

[ZaZara]

Fire breaks out at Nantes cathedral


A fire has broken out at the cathedral in the French city of Nantes.

More than 60 firefighters are currently at the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral, according to local media. The cause of the fire is not yet known.

Images from the scene show a substantial fire and smoke billowing from inside the gothic building.

It comes only a year after the devastating fire at the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, one of France's greatest architectural treasures.


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Pierre-Louis Delauney
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Un terrible incendie ravage actuellement la cathédrale de Saint-Pierre et Saint Paul de #Nantes. Merci au pompiers qui luttent actuellement contre les flammes et font tous leurs possibles pour sauver Notre-Dame de Nantes


A terrible fire is currently ravaging the cathedral of Saint-Pierre and Saint Paul de #Nantes. We thank the firefighters who are currently fighting the flames and doing everything they can to save Notre-Dame de Nantes.


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[ZaZara]

Nantes cathedral saved from NotreDame-style fire after arson attack


Nantes cathedral saved from NotreDame-style fire after arson attack

Prosecutors are treating the blaze as arson after revealing three fires were started at the 15th Century cathedral

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[astheworldfallsdown]

Oh no, what terrible news. Horrible to see another beautiful historic building in danger

 

[ZaZara]

Incendie de la cathédrale de Nantes : un bénévole du diocèse placé en garde à vue

Nantes Cathedral fire: a volunteer from the diocese taken into custody

The man has been questioned since Saturday afternoon for inconsistencies in his timeline. He was in charge of closing the cathedral on Friday night.

A volunteer from the diocese has been taken into custody after the fire at Nantes cathedral, franceinfo learned Sunday 19 July from the public prosecutor in Nantes. His custody may be extended during the day but the public prosecutor Pierre Sennes calls for the utmost caution. For him, it is hasty and premature to draw conclusions this Sunday morning.

The 39-year-old man has been in custody since Saturday afternoon, around 4 p.m., due to inconsistencies in his timetable. He was in charge of closing the cathedral on Friday evening. Investigators want to verify his schedule and in particular the way he closed the building. It is a procedural choice, the prosecutor of Nantes told franceinfo.


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[ZaZara]

Incendie de la cathédrale de Nantes : un homme a été placé en garde à vue

It is impossible to know for the moment what he is suspected of, but the investigators of the judicial police have many questions to ask him, including about the three points where the fire started that were found. He is a 39-year-old Rwandan refugee working as a volunteer for the diocese. In recent days, he had reportedly complained vehemently about his situation as a migrant and, in particular, about the non-renewal of his residence permit, without, however, mentioning a possible criminal act.


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[ZaZara]

Destroyed in the fires


Paul Chopelin @ChopelinP
Behind the flames is the great Girardet organ (early 17th century), saved by the organist Denis Joubert during the Revolution, a survivor of the 1972 fire.

 

[Eloise]

So could he have committed the crime as a way to stay in France?

 

[ZaZara]

Destroyed in the fires



Paul Chopelin @ChopelinP


The large glass window attributed to Pierre de La Chasse (c. 1500) is destroyed: a Fountain of Life (centre), Anne of Brittany and Saint Anne (bottom left) and Marguerite de Foix and Saint Marguerite (bottom right).

 

[astheworldfallsdown]

Destroyed in the fires



Paul Chopelin @ChopelinP


The large glass window attributed to Pierre de La Chasse (c. 1500) is destroyed: a Fountain of Life (centre), Anne of Brittany and Saint Anne (bottom left) and Marguerite de Foix and Saint Marguerite (bottom right).

So sad, irreplaceable

 

[Cool Cats]

Destroyed in the fires



Paul Chopelin @ChopelinP


The large glass window attributed to Pierre de La Chasse (c. 1500) is destroyed: a Fountain of Life (centre), Anne of Brittany and Saint Anne (bottom left) and Marguerite de Foix and Saint Marguerite (bottom right).

..no words..so incredibly beautiful..

 

[astheworldfallsdown]

Man arrested after fire at Nantes cathedral destroys grand organ

An investigation for possible arson is under way. Mr Sennes said on Saturday that three fires had been started and there was no sign of a break-in.

Le Parisien newspaper said an "electric counter" may have been linked to one of the fires at the historic cathedral in western France.

Investigators are also looking at a possible short circuit, it reported.

The cathedral's rector Father Hubert Champenois told BFM TV that the man in custody had worked there for several years and he trusted him completely.

Firefighters have been picking up fragments of broken stained glass as they combed the scene for clues.

It took several hours to bring the blaze under control after it began on Saturday morning.

Flames were completely extinguished by the afternoon.

Image:Firefighters picking up fragments of stained glass

 

[ZaZara]

Incendie de la cathédrale de Nantes : le bénévole du diocèse remis en liberté après sa garde à vue

The 39-year-old man, who had been held in police custody on Saturday in connection with the investigation into the fire at Nantes cathedral, was released on Sunday evening, AFP learned from the public prosecutor.

"I confirm the release without any prosecution of the volunteer working in the diocese," Sennès told AFP, confirming a report in the daily Presse-Océan.

The volunteer from the diocese of Nantes had been taken into custody on Saturday as part of the investigation into the fire in the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral. The volunteer "was in charge of closing the cathedral on Friday evening and the investigators wanted to clarify certain details of this person's timetable," Nantes public prosecutor Pierre Sennès said on Sunday.

The investigators wanted to question this man about the conditions under which the cathedral was closed, but Sennès stressed that "any interpretation that could implicate this person in the commission of the facts is premature and hasty." "We must remain cautious about the interpretation of this police custody, it is a normal procedure," he said.

No trace of break-in at the level of external accesses was found, the prosecutor said Saturday. Father Hubert Champenois, rector of the cathedral, told AFP on Saturday that "everything was in order" on Friday evening. "Every evening, before closing it, a very precise inspection is carried out," he said.

Still, questions have been raised about the origin of the fire because "three separate fire points" have been identified inside the cathedral. "Between the great organ, which is on the facade on the first floor and the other fires, you have practically the entire length of the cathedral, the fires are still at a significant distance from each other," the prosecutor noted Saturday.

On Sunday morning, a large security perimeter is still in place in front of the cathedral, keeping the onlookers away, an AFP photographer noted.


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[ZaZara]

Justice. Incendie à la cathédrale de Nantes: de nouveau arrêté, le bénévole a été présenté à un juge

The 39-year-old volunteer, first arrested on 18 July in the investigation into the fire at Nantes Cathedral, was arrested again on Saturday 25 July.

Placed in police custody, he was presented this Saturday evening to the public prosecutor's office in Nantes, who initiated a judicial investigation into the charges of damaging, deteriorating or destroying the property of others by fire and requested that the matter be referred to the liberty and detention judge with a view to placing him in pre-trial detention.

The man was in charge of closing the building on Friday 17 July, the day before the incident. "The initial results from the laboratory of the Paris police headquarters lead us to focus on a criminal act," Nantes public prosecutor Pierre Sennès told Presse Océan.

The suspect does not admit to the charges against him, according to Pierre Sennès.


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