Another old French Cathedral Burns in Nantes - Arson Suspected

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The Cathedral of Saint Pierre and Saint Paul was constructed between the 13th and 16th centuries. It’s grand organ has been destroyed and it’s stained glass windows blown out. Arson suspected.

Arson Suspected - Massive Blaze Destroys Parts Of Nantes Cathedral In France
Sat, 07/18/2020 - 11:00

Firefighters, Saturday, have been battling a massive blaze at the cathedral in the French city of Nantes, located on the Loire River in the Upper Brittany region of western France.

BBC News states, the fire, which has already destroyed the Cathedral of Saint Pierre and Saint Paul's stained glass windows and grand organ, is believed to have been deliberately set on fire.

The fire comes a little over a year after a blaze destroyed Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris. Video footage uploaded onto Twitter shows smoke billowing out of the cathedral's arch-shaped window...

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[Brian4Liberty]

Will they catch the person(s) involved?

[Anti Federalist]

Diversity is divisive.

[tod evans]

Time to reinstate the Knights Templar.

[Danke]

39-Year-Old Rwandan Migrant Taken Into Custody After Suspected Arson Attack Almost Completely Destroyed Historic Cathedral in Nantes, France

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...nantes-france/

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39-Year-Old Rwandan Migrant Taken Into Custody After Suspected Arson Attack Almost Completely Destroyed Historic Cathedral in Nantes, France

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...nantes-france/

Hopefully they have solid evidence on this guy.

Was he Catholic?

[Anti Globalist]

The war on churches continue.

[Anti Federalist]

So much cultural enrichment.


Rwandan Migrant Admits Arson

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...-admits-arson/

A volunteer at Nantes Cathedral has told police that he lit three fires inside the 15th-century building he was entrusted to look after by church authorities.

Nantes cathedral was badly damaged in the arson attack on July 18th, with dramatic images and footage showing fire ripping through the west porch and tower of the “Gothic jewel” of the city, which caused serious internal damage and destroyed the organ.

An arson investigation was launched almost immediately after the two-hour battle by firefighters to save the building, and shortly afterwards a Rwandan immigrant — who was a volunteer at the cathedral and had been responsible for locking up the building the night before — was held and questioned by police. The man was released without charge shortly afterwards.

The cathedral in Nantes burns. pic.twitter.com/c8LXkS6Bhc

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 18, 2020

But now the same — named only as ‘Emmanuel’ in French newspapers — 39-year-old man has been rearrested and has confessed, Le Figaro reports, to arson. The man, who came to France as a refugee from Rwanda in 2015 or 2016 and was looked after by the church after his arrival, told a magistrate after presenting himself to the police to confess on Saturday night that he lit three fires. Two were in organs, and one was in an electrical control panel.

Taken into police custody, the man faces up to ten years in prison and a fine of €150,000 ($175,000) for the destruction. he caused.

The motive of the attack is unknown. By the account of the cathedral’s rector the Rwandan male had volunteered at the church for some years and served at altar. He was trusted enough to be one of six volunteers who had a full set of keys to the building and was on a rota for locking the building up in the evening. The lawyer for the man said his client “bitterly regrets” what had happened.

That Nantes burned so soon after the devastating fire at Notre Dame cathedral Paris did not fail to elicit attention and comment in France, although the Notre-Dame fire is said to have been an accident, rather than arson. French President Emmanuel Macron remarked as the fire burnt earlier in July: “After Notre-Dame, Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral, in the heart of Nantes, is in flames… Support for our firefighters who take all the risks to save this Gothic jewel of the city of the Dukes.”

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[navy-vet]

sad

[Pauls' Revere]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/c...antes-n1234940

Church volunteer admits to arson attack on medieval cathedral in French city of Nantes
"He confessed to the allegations against him which, as the prosecutor indicated, are causing destruction and damage by fire," said lawyer, Quentin Chabert.

French media quoted the Nantes prosecutor as saying that the 39-year-old Rwandan, who'd been tasked with the job of locking up the cathedral, told the investigating magistrate that he lit three fires: on two cathedral organs and an electrical box. His motives were unknown.


The prosecutor said the arson charge is punishable by a 10-year jail term and a fine of 150,000 euros ($175,000).

The fire broke the main stained-glass windows between the cathedral's two towers and destroyed its main organ. Dating from the 17th century, the organ was called the "soul of the cathedral" by faithful.

The cathedral was built over five centuries and completed in 1891. The organ had previously survived a serious fire in 1972, which annihilated much of its wooden structures.