Rwanda Refugee Charged In Arson Attack On 15th-Century French Cathedral
By Our Reporter
A Rwandan
refugee and church volunteer admitted to setting three fires in an arson attack
that badly damaged a 15th-century Gothic cathedral in western France earlier
this month, his lawyer confirmed.
The July 18
blaze destroyed the organ, shattered stained-glass windows, and blackened the
insides of the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of the western French city
of Nantes.
Property that was destroyed inside the burnt Cathedral
Nantes
prosecutor Pierre Sennes said the unidentified 39-year-old Rwandan asylum
seeker was a volunteer at the cathedral and had been tasked with the job of
locking up when he lit three fires: two
on cathedral organs and one on an electrical box.
Sennes said
so far the suspect “has not elaborated in detail on his motivations....