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BREAKING: Notre Dame Cathedral burning

Discussion in 'Western Europe' started by BuckyBadger, Apr 15, 2019.

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    Oh. My. God. :tears: :cry: :disbelief:

    That's too awful for words. What an incredible loss.
     
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    Central Spire is essentially gone.... No word on how it started.
     
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    They average 13 million visitors a year.
     
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    Always sucks to see these great buildings damaged.
     
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    The 3 relics inside will most likely be lost: pieces of the "crown of thorns", parts of the true cross and a leg bone from St. Vincent.
     
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    So, is it an accident? or terrorism?
     
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    The stable genius suggests using water tankers.
     
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    I'm pretty sure there will be a civil war in France soon. It's a kind of bad omen.

    The mayor of the city is socialist, I'm not sure she will let the cathedral being build back.
     
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    Recently a pakistani cultural enrichment devasted the church where our king are buried, in Saint Denis. It could be a muslim or a leftist.
     
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    Sad for a city whose history is so tightly linked to their monuments being run by someone who doesn't value them. She sounds atrocious.
     
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    Yup. Took about a hundred years the first time to build it. From 1160 to 1260. I read that it had been damaged before and improved over the years, but can you imagine the art in that cathedral that might be lost forever? It's like the soul of Paris is being attacked here...
     
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    No way the 800 year old church caught fire and exploded that fast completely by accident.
     
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    So sad. Notre Dame is iconic in Paris and the loss is devastating.
     
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    It's not the worst case. With millions of tourist which wer in it, there is a lot of things that are still in memories kept in picture, there is places which are set on fire and there isn't even memories of that. I think however it would be probably build back. I hope so.
     
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    Or a rightist or a Methodist....
     
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    We don't have a lot of methodist in France and right winged people are catholic in France. The only people which are attempting to destroying our thousand year old culture are leftists and muslims.
     
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    As I understand it, it was heavily guarded as it had been a target for years, since 2015. Is that accurate?

    We do know the fire started in the back in an area under construction.
     
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    It could be an accident. But there were a lot of church vandalized by muslims those last years, and I saw enough terrorist attacks in live through medias to know how it end.
     
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    They are reporting the fire started 5-6 min. AFTER the Cathedral had been closed. Strange coincidence.
     
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    Pope Francis?
     
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