Notre Dame: "The structure resists" | Investigate the …

The fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral will now be investigated. The Paris prosecutor said Tuesday that the authorities favor the accidental trace of the fire that devastated the monumental building of Paris. "Nothing indicates a voluntary act," he said. The French secretary of state warned that although the structure "resists globally" presents "vulnerabilities", the neighboring buildings should have been evacuated.

"Five companies were coming in instead, today they have started to make statements about the workers employed by these companies, about fifteen were planned, about fifteen came in and were present yesterday," said Rémy Heitz in front of the company. cathedral, adding that the judicial police 50 researchers are working on the case.

The prosecutor explained that there was "a first warning at 6:20 pm followed by a procedure to dispel doubts, but that no fire outbreak was detected at this time. time. " "There was a second alert at 18:43 and there was a fire in the armor of the roof, while the church was evacuated because a mbad had started shortly before," he said. added the manager.

Remy Heitz warned that the investigations would be "long, complex" but promised that "all means are implemented to reach the truth, to know the origin of this terrible fire". Yesterday, the Gothic cathedral, completed in 1343, burned for six hours. Part of the roof and the needle have completely collapsed.

The French Secretary of State for the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, announced this morning that, although the church structure "resists", "vulnerabilities of the building" have been detected. "Now, the main concern is to ensure that the building is not cracked," he said. "Overall, the structure resists" but "some vulnerabilities have been identified, especially in the vault and a north transept gable that needs to be reinforced", which led to the evacuation of five buildings adjacent to the monument, a- he explained.