Volunteer confesses to setting French cathedral on fire

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RENNES: A volunteer church assistant has confessed to setting the fire that severely damaged a Gothic cathedral in Nantes, western France, his lawyer ...

In this file photo taken on July 20, 2020 a police officer stands in front of the partially burnt facade of the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul Cathedral in Nantes, western France, two days after a fire broke out in three places at the gothic cathedral of Nantes in western France, destroying stained glass windows and the grand organ and sparking an arson investigation.

“My client has cooperated,“ lawyer Quentin Chabert told the Presse-Ocean newspaper, without elaborating on motives for attempting to burn down the Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul.Prosecutors opened an arson inquiry after the early morning fire on July 18 after finding that it broke out in three different places in the church, which the volunteer had locked up the night before.

But Nantes prosecutor Pierre Sennes said in a statement Saturday that he had been charged with “destruction and damage by fire,“ and faces up to 10 years in prison and 150,000 euros in fines. While firefighters were able to contain the Nantes blaze after just two hours and save its main structure, the famed organ, which dated from 1621 and had survived the French revolution and World War II bombardment, was destroyed.

 

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