A police officer in entrance of Nantes cathedral on July 20, 2020, a couple of days after the hearth – Loic VENANCE / AFP
“There is a kind of relief, it’s someone who is scared, he is in a way overwhelmed,” Me Chabert informed reporters on Sunday. The person suspected of being behind the hearth in Nantes cathedral, a 39-year-old volunteer from the diocese, confessed on Saturday. Introduced to a decide, he was indicted and remanded in custody for “destruction and damage by fire”.
The person “admitted, during the first appearance examination before the examining magistrate, having lit the three fires in the cathedral: on the large organ, the small organ and in an electrical panel”, specified the prosecutor. of the Republic of Nantes Pierre Sennès each day. He incurs for this offense “a penalty of 10 years imprisonment and a fine of 150,000 euros,” stated Pierre Sennés in an e-mail despatched in a single day.
