French authorities have charged a repentant church volunteer after he admitted setting a damaging fire to the Gothic cathedral in Nantes.
French authorities have detained and charged a repentant church volunteer who told investigators he was responsible for an arson attack that badly damaged the 15th-century Gothic cathedral in the western French city of Nantes.
The man had previously been questioned and then released after the July 18 blaze that destroyed the organ, shattered stained-glass windows and blackened the insides of the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul. Detained again this weekend for further questioning, the volunteer church worker admitted responsibility for the fire, said his lawyer, Quentin Chabert.
“He confessed to the allegations against him which, as the prosecutor indicated, are [of] causing destruction and damage by fire,” the lawyer told France Info radio Sunday. “He regrets the facts. That is certain. He is in a sort of repentance.”French media quoted the Nantes prosecutor as saying that the 39-year-old Rwandan, who had been tasked with locking up the cathedral, told the investigating magistrate that he lit three fires: on two cathedral organs and an electrical box.
The prosecutor said the arson charge is punishable by a 10-year jail term and a fine of 150,000 euros .
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