The French government has reportedly forbidden state-employed architects from giving interviews to the media about the Notre Dame fire.
That’s according to Antoine Pasquier, editor in chief of news outlet Famille Chrétienne.
Pasquier tweeted that France’s Ministry of Culture has ordered government architects who work for Monuments Historiques, the state body responsible for preserving the architectural heritage of France, not to speak to the press.
Info confirmée par 2 archi des monuments historiques : le ministère de la culture leur interdit de répondre aux interviews sur #Notre-Dame
— Antoine Pasquier (@PasquierA) April 19, 2019
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As we highlighted yesterday, despite authorities ruling the fire an “accident,” the actual cause of the blaze has yet to be determined.
The company responsible for elevators in the cathedral said the power to them was cut by workers leaving the site an hour and a half before the fire started.
Electrical wiring that ran through the roof of the cathedral was also up to standards, according to Notre-Dame spokesman Andre Finot.
A scaffolding firm that worked on the site also said that some its employees defied rules by smoking, but asserted that it was impossible for a cigarette butt to burn old oak beams.
The Paris prosecutor’s office announced that it had not ruled out any hypothesis about the origin of the fire and that all possibilities were still being explored.
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