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PARIS (Reuters) - A scaffolding firm that has worked on the roof of Notre-Dame said some of its workers had smoked on the site, but ruled out that a cigarette butt might have started the fire that destroyed the cathedral's oak-framed roof last week.
A spokesman for family-owned Le Bras Freres, confirming a report in French weekly Le Canard Enchaine, told Reuters that some workers of its Europe Echafaudage scaffolding unit had informed police that they had "sometimes" smoked on the scaffolding, despite a smoking ban on the site.
"We condemn it. But the fire started inside the building... so for company Le Bras this is not a hypothesis, it was not a cigarette butt that set Notre-Dame de Paris on fire," Le Bras Frères spokesman Marc Eskenazi said.
The Canard Enchaine reported that police had found the remains of seven cigarette butts in the burnt-out cathedral.
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SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)but Quasimodo has a hunch!
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applegrove
(118,734 posts)malaise
(269,112 posts)That was my first suspicion
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,869 posts)was dropped.