A time lapse camera installed just hours before Monday's devastating blaze ...
PARIS - A time lapse camera installed just hours before Monday’s devastating blaze at Notre-Dame de Paris may contain vital clues as to what caused the inferno, a French scaffolding company working at the cathedral said on Thursday.
Footage from the camera, which was placed on the northern belltower and is now in the hands of investigators, shows the first smoke coming out of the spire’s base, Marc Eskenazi, a representative for Europe Echafaudage told Reuters. The office of Paris public prosecutor Remy Heitz did not respond to a request for comment on the images.
Scaffolding specialist Europe Echafaudage, a unit of Le Bras Freres, a family-owned business of 140 employees based in Lorraine in eastern France, had almost finished erecting the scaffolding around the spire, 14 months after starting.Europe Echafaudage, and a second company involved in the project, Pro Tech Foudre, have said they followed strict safety procedures.
“That’s exactly what the workers did. They followed the procedure, and it was of course duly noted in the registers at the sacristy.”Police sources confirmed no welding was being done at this stage to the site. An hour later, the spire, engulfed in flames, collapsed to the gasps of hundreds of dumbstruck onlookers.
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