Roof workers mending the roof and spire of Notre-Dame before it went up in flames last week have admitted flouting a smoking ban, amid claims of a string of safety lapses at Paris' famed Gothic cathedral
Police also now believe that human error, rather than a computer glitch, caused a catastrophic 35-minute delay in alerting the fire brigade to the blaze, according to findings cited by Le Canard Enchaîné, the investigative and satirical weekly.
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