Notre Dame fire was probably an accident, Paris official says

Paris public prosecutor Remy Heitz says 50 people aere working on a ‘long’ and ‘complex’ probe into what caused Monday's fire.A woman cries as people look at Notre Dame cathedral engulfed in flames from the Paris’s Hotel de Ville esplanade on April 15 2019. Picture: AFP

Donations and offers of help began to pour in on Tuesday as day broke over the City of Light, revealing the extent of the damage from Monday night's inferno, which took about 15 hours to extinguish. French billionaire Bernard Arnault announced that he and the LVMH luxury conglomerate he controls would give €200m, after luxury rival Kering offered €100m.

Investigators began interviewing witnesses overnight and are treating the case as an “involuntary fire”, not arson. But culture minister Riester warned that the structure remained unstable and that no one had yet been able to fully inspect the extent of the fire and water damage inside. Gasps and cries of “Oh my God” erupted about an hour after the fire first broke out, when the top portion of the church's spire came crashing down.

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