Part-time philosophy professor pleads not guilty to charges he tried to set fire to St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York just a few days after a fire tore through Notre Dame.
A part-time philosophy professor pleaded not guilty Friday to charges he tried to set fire to St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York just a few days after a fire tore through Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
It took several hours for hundreds of firefighters in France to quell the flames, which ignited during an evening mass on April 15 at the start of Holy Week, the busiest and most important period of the liturgical year. The cause of the blaze is still under investigation, though early indications were that it was accidental.
"His basic story was that he was cutting through the cathedral to get to Madison Avenue, that his car had run out of gas," NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller told reporters following the arrest."We took a look at the vehicle. It was not out of gas and at that point he was taken into custody."
Lamparello was a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the City University of New York, and taught at several colleges and universities, including Brooklyn College.
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