The church in which "The Da Vinci Code" was filmed was burned in Paris

For a few minutes, the Parisians were on alert. This Sunday, the historic church Saint-Sulpice, where the film was shot The Da Vinci code, he caught fire. Immediately, firefighters extinguish the flames and no one was injured.

According to local media reports, the fire started early in the afternoon. Inside the building, four people recorded the incident and viralised the images.

The fire started in one of the doors of the catholic church until reaching a stained glbad window and a staircase. For the moment, it is estimated that the damage was minor.

A spokesman for the fire department said it would open an internal investigation, who will try to determine the reasons. Until now, no authority has advanced the possible badumption about how the incident occurred.

The church, built in the seventeenth century on foundations dating from the Middle Ages, is located in the left bank district of Saint Germain des Prés and It houses three paintings by Eugene Delacroix,one of the main figures of the romantic movement la France in the nineteenth century.