The Notre Dame wildfire that can’t be put out
France’s prophets of doom and conspiracy theorists are determined to see something darker in the blaze.
By Nicholas Vinocur
4/22/19, 3:05 PM CET
Updated 4/25/19, 10:27 PM CET
The fire at Notre Dame has been out for days. But a secondary blaze of conspiracy theories, apocalyptic visions and political fervor is harder to extinguish, and is set to widen France's cultural divides.
It started on the morning of April 16, when most of Europe woke up with huge relief to discover that the Notre Dame cathedral was still standing.
But Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, a former presidential running mate of Marine Le Pen, did not look relieved, nor was he satisfied with official explanations of how the fire had broken out. Standing in front of the still-smoldering monument, he demanded on live TV to know whether the fire had been accidental, as police had said, or the result of an "attack."
https://www.politico.eu/article/the-notre-dame-wildfire-that-cant-be-put-out/
