"Our goal is to protect historic buildings," boasted the businessman responsible for the restoration of Notre Dame.

"The cathedral is safe in our hands!", Julien Le Bras, president of the company responsible for the restoration of the iconic Notre-Dame Temple, suffered serious damage last year due to the fire that raged for more than twelve hours .

"Our first goal is protect historic buildings, is in our DNA, "said the owner of the company The arm, which is now under the magnifying glbad near the fire that has consumed part of the historic cathedral, icon of France.

His company, Le Bras Freres, won the call for tenders for the restoration of the cathedral and his owner had badured that "They would not put the building in danger." The contract was for 5.7 million euros to restore the spire of Notre Dame, designed by the architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and erected in 1859.

The company worked on the restoration of the temple spire, which was destroyed by the flames. And it is at this place that he would have lit the fire: the Minister of Culture, Franck Riester, said that everything indicates that this region is at the origin of the disaster, because there work had begun recently.

In a video posted on the company's Facebook page, the business man boasted about his company's "ability and technical competence" to restore historic buildings, slogan Daily mail.

"We are proud of our work in historic buildings. We have the technical capacity and the competence for this work. Our first idea is to protect the values ​​of historic buildings, this is part of our DNA, "said the business man.

Filmed at the end-of-year staff party, he said: "We are ready to start working in 2019 and we are very motivated, the team is ready and we have the know-how" . The company was founded in 1954 by Louis Le Bras, grandfather of the current owner. It is located in Jarny, in the east of France and employs 200 artisans.

The company won the restoration contract of Notre Dame last year after work in nine other historic sites, including the cathedrals of Reims, Poitiers, Verdun, Strasbourg, Amiens and the Pantheon in Paris. Among the repairs was that of the 100 meter needle and the 12 apostles who crowned it.

After the catastrophe in the cathedral, the businessman defended himself by saying that he respected all the security rules and that when the fire started, none of his employees were in the place. "We want, more than anyone else, to shed light on the causes of this tragedy," Le Bras told the news network. BFM.

A judicial investigation is under way to determine the causes of the devastating fire that caused the fall of part of the roof and spire of the iconic cathedral. Until now, the authorities give priority to the hypothesis of an accident.