A man has been arrested in connection with a fire at Nantes cathedral that destroyed the grand organ and blew out stained glass windows
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The 39-year-old is a Rwandan refugee who worked at the 15th-Century gothic structure as a volunteer and was in charge of locking up on Friday night, TV channel LCI said. Prosecutor Pierre Sennes said the man had been taken into custody so that alleged inconsistencies in his schedule could be examined.is under way. Mr Sennes said on Saturday that three fires had been started and there was no sign of a break-in.
Le Parisien newspaper said an"electric counter" may have been linked to one of the fires at the historic cathedral in western France.Firefighters battle fire at historic French cathedral The unnamed refugee's lawyer Quentin Chabert said:"To my knowledge, as things stand, there is nothing that directly links my client to the cathedral fire."
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