French police experts start to examine Notre Dame Cathedral for the first time since last week's devastating fire.
French police scientists were starting to examine Notre Dame Cathedral on Thursday for the first time since last week's devastating fire. Among their questions: whether cigarette butts from construction workers could have played a role.
Teams in white helmets talked with firefighters outside the monument Thursday, while workers shored up the roof and sides of the 12th-century cathedral. Multiple cranes are positioned around the site, as the French president pushes for a speedy reconstruction after the fire consumed the cathedral's roof and knocked down its spire.
"It's not good. We condemn this," Eskenazi told the AP. But he insisted that"a cigarette butt did not burn down Notre Dame. It's just not possible." The Paris prosecutor's office wouldn't comment on specifics of the investigation, but said all potential leads are being pursued. The prosecutor's office and Paris police wouldn't comment on a report in investigative weekly Le Canard Enchaine that electric cables to the cathedral's bells had remained activated despite the renovation work.
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