Firefighters extinguished the fire in the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Nantes, the risk of collapse is practically absent, the representative of the fire brigade Department of the Loire-Atlantique Lieutenant-Colonel jérôme Langlois, the TV channel BFMTV. But firefighters will remain on scene until the morning, he said.”The fire has been extinguished, but operations are continuing… At the moment the risk of collapse inside the Cathedral there or it is quite small,” said Mr. Langlois (quoted by “RIA Novosti”). He added that in the ruins can find important for the investigation and reconstruction of fragments.Breaking: The fire at the Nantes Cathedral is contained. Arson is not being ruled out. pic.twitter.com/6qZUbfKThiПожар the Cathedral was seen today at 7:30 in the morning, after 15 minutes the firefighters arrived. The police filed a case. At the moment it is assumed that we are talking about arson.The Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, built in the XV century and completed in the end of XIX, one of the most important Gothic monuments of Brittany and all of France. This is not the first fire in the Cathedral in modern times. In 1972, the roof of the Cathedral completely burned down and was rebuilt three years later.
