Update: No evidence Notre Dame fire was deliberate, says Paris prosecutor

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p><b>Update&colon; <&sol;b>The Paris prosecutor said there is no evidence of arson in the Notre Dame fire and that they’re working on the assumption that the blaze was an accident&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Remy Heitz says the investigation will be &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;long and complex&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;130339" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-130339" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;04&sol;E866BCD9-40C4-4A32-A3B7-3B2ED94F14E2&period;jpeg"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-130339" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;04&sol;E866BCD9-40C4-4A32-A3B7-3B2ED94F14E2&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"338" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-130339" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Firefighters work at the facade of Notre Dame cathedral today&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Speaking after the blaze was put out&comma; he said five investigators are working on the probe&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said they will be interviewing workers from five companies that had been hired to work on renovations to the cathedral’s roof&comma; which was where the flames started&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"in-article">Earlier&colon; &&num;8216&semi;Our hearts are with our brothers in France&comma;&&num;8217&semi; says top Muslim cleric after devastating Notre Dame fire<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>Egypt’s top Muslim cleric has expressed sadness over the fire that destroyed part of the famous Notre Dame cathedral in Paris&comma; describing it as a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;historic architectural masterpiece”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb&comma; the grand imam of Al-Azhar&comma; the Sunni Muslim world’s seat of learning&comma; wrote on Facebook&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our hearts are with our brothers in France&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;130340" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-130340" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;04&sol;8346AB22-A9F8-4742-844D-9C2D9ADA7D33&period;jpeg"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-130340" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;04&sol;8346AB22-A9F8-4742-844D-9C2D9ADA7D33&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"338" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-130340" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Handout image from Pompiers de Paris showing the scene of the fire at Notre Dame cathedral&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault who earlier said he is pledging to donate €100m to rebuild the cathedral said it is a &&num;8220&semi;symbol of spirituality and our common humanity&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking to BBC Radio 4&&num;8217&semi;s Today programme&comma; the businessman said he expects others to follow suit as &&num;8220&semi;it has to be a collective endeavour&&num;8221&semi; to renovate the Parisian landmark&comma; saying that &&num;8220&semi;everyone with means and recourse should participate&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads5--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said it was a &&num;8220&semi;shock&&num;8221&semi; to see the building on fire last night&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;We need to rebuild collectively this part of our history&comma; of our culture&comma; so it&&num;8217&semi;s an urgent&comma; urgent need to move forward&comma; so I decided to unlock a very important amount of money to do that&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Asked if others from around the world could join him in donating money&comma; he said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Everyone is welcome&comma; it goes beyond France&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s a symbol of our culture&comma; a symbol of spirituality and our common humanity&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Pinault said the money&comma; which comes from his family&&num;8217&semi;s personal wealth and not his retail empire Kering&comma; comes with no strings attached or &&num;8220&semi;ownership&&num;8221&semi; as to how it is used to repair Notre Dame&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>French politician Nicolas Dupont-Aignan praised businessmen Bernard Arnault and Francois-Henri Pinault for &&num;8220&semi;setting an example&&num;8221&semi; by pledging millions of pounds to repair the building&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking to press in front of Notre Dame&comma; he said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;All the Parisians who have gathered on the banks have demanded an inquiry to understand what happened &&num;8211&semi; is it an accident and why such an accident&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads7--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;How can all of this burn&quest; It&&num;8217&semi;s terrible &&num;8211&semi; or&comma; is it more serious&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I think the French are asking themselves this question&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He added&colon; &&num;8220&semi;The French want to know what happened and we have to give them the truth&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Dupont-Aignan&comma; who founded the political party Debout la France in 1999&comma; added&colon; &&num;8220&semi;The state will need to devote millions&comma; and it will take decades &lbrack;to repair&rsqb; and when we look at the damage&comma; it is a tragedy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;What can we do to understand how that happened and what can we do to prevent it happening to other monuments in our country&quest;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said it would be a &&num;8220&semi;good thing&&num;8221&semi; if the process of rebuilding Notre Dame became a means of uniting France&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"in-article">Earlier&colon; Entire Notre Dame fire &&num;8216&semi;fully extinguished&&num;8217&semi;&semi; French billionaire pledges €200m for restoration<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>Paris’ deputy mayor said Notre Dame’s organ&comma; one of the biggest and most famous in the world&comma; remains intact after the fire&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Emmanuel Gregoire told BFMTV that a plan to protect the cathedral’s treasures had been rapidly and successfully activated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;130323" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-130323" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;04&sol;AD707BAE-E2DC-4784-880D-C928E45D1CE6&period;jpeg"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-130323" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;04&sol;AD707BAE-E2DC-4784-880D-C928E45D1CE6&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"338" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-130323" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">A man kneels as people come to watch and photograph the Notre Dame cathedral after the fire&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The organ dates to the 1730s and was constructed by Francois Thierry&period; It boasts an estimated 8&comma;000 pipes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Gregoire also described &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;enormous relief” at the salvaging of pieces such as the purported Crown of Christ&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>Update&colon; <&sol;b>The blaze at Notre Dame cathedral is fully extinguished&comma; Paris firefighters have confirmed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A spokesman for Paris firefighters said that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the entire fire is out” at Notre Dame&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;04&sol;6C730E1C-9BA3-4CCA-A119-E16967A42AB5&period;jpeg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-130324" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;04&sol;6C730E1C-9BA3-4CCA-A119-E16967A42AB5&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"478" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Gabriel Plus said emergency services are currently &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;surveying the movement of the structures and extinguishing smouldering residues”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Plus said that now the fire is out&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;this phase is for the experts” to plan how to consolidate the edifice&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>Update&colon; <&sol;b>The Paris Fire Service&comma; Pompiers de Paris&comma; said on Twitter that Notre Dame&&num;8217&semi;s structure and artworks had been saved&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;The structure of the cathedral is saved and the main works of art have been safeguarded&comma; thanks to the combined action of the various state services committed to our side&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;04&sol;D6618353-728F-465F-93F7-602F83929657&period;jpeg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-130328" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;04&sol;D6618353-728F-465F-93F7-602F83929657&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1373" height&equals;"1285" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They also reported that two police officers and one firefighter had been injured while tackling the blaze&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The fire service said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;After more than nine hours of fierce fighting&comma; nearly 400 Paris firefighters came to grips with the terrible fire&period; Two police officers and one firefighter were slightly wounded&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The relic of the crown of thorns and a number of priceless artefacts were taken from the cathedral to Paris City Hall for safekeeping&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>French billionaire Bernard Arnault and his group LVMH have pledged €200m towards Notre Dame&&num;8217&semi;s reconstruction&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads5--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Experts are assessing the blackened shell of Notre Dame to establish the next steps to save what remains of the structure&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>French junior interior minister Laurent Nunez announced that architects and other experts would meet at the cathedral early on Tuesday &&num;8220&semi;to determine if the structure is stable and if the firefighters can go inside to continue their work&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A French cultural heritage expert said France no longer has trees big enough to replace ancient wooden beams that burned in the Notre Dame fire&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bertrand de Feydeau&comma; vice president of preservation group Fondation du Patrimoine&comma; told France Info radio that the wooden roof that went up in flames was built with beams more than 800 years ago from primal forests&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;04&sol;ACC0DB2B-7DD5-416F-B586-82D69F3DB089&period;jpeg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-130325" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;04&sol;ACC0DB2B-7DD5-416F-B586-82D69F3DB089&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"338" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said the cathedral&&num;8217&semi;s roof cannot be rebuilt exactly as it was before the fire because &&num;8220&semi;we don&&num;8217&semi;t&comma; at the moment&comma; have trees on our territory of the size that were cut in the 13th century&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said the restoration work will have to use new technologies in order to rebuild the roof&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"in-article">Earlier&colon; Heartbreak for France as huge fire ravages Notre Dame Cathedral<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;04&sol;0722E377-5E79-49F3-90BB-66A91BA5EBEB&period;jpeg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-130326" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;04&sol;0722E377-5E79-49F3-90BB-66A91BA5EBEB&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"338" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A catastrophic fire at Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral has left a nation mourning the devastation of its cultural and historic &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;epicentre” and sent shockwaves around the world&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hundreds of firefighters tackled the historic blaze through the night&comma; battling to stop it wreaking complete destruction of the treasured facade after flames torched the roof&comma; sending its spire crashing to the ground before crowds of horrified Parisians&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; teams raced to recover what treasures they could from the 850-year-old Gothic masterpiece&comma; which housed priceless artefacts and relics of huge religious and international significance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The blaze&comma; which broke out as the last crowds of tourists ended visits at around 6pm BST &lpar;7pm local time&rpar;&comma; was finally declared to be &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;completely under control” nearly nine hours later&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads3--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; it is expected to take several days to completely extinguish all remaining pockets of fire&comma; dampen down hotspots and secure the world-famous edifice&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Attention is beginning to turn to what may have caused the landmark&comma; part of which was being restored&comma; to fall victim to such a disaster&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Paris prosecutors’ office said police will carry out an investigation into &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;involuntary destruction caused by fire”&comma; 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