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One More Time: The Notre Dame Fire
Man in custody after Nantes cathedral fire: French media
A 39-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a fire in the 15th-century cathedral in the French city of Nantes that blew out stained glass windows and destroyed the grand organ.
The man, a Rwandan refugee, worked as a volunteer for the cathedral and had been in charge of locking up the building on Friday night, TV channel LCI reported on Sunday, citing a prosecutor.
Now that we realize that it is possible for someone to commit arson on a world-famous cathedral let’s review what happened at Notre Dame.
After closing time (when all of the renovation workers had left) a fire started in what is called the attic at Notre Dame. This is a completely closed off area just under the peak of the roof. As there was no window or opening to the inside of the cathedral the fire grew unnoticed until someone saw the smoke rising from the roof some distance from the cathedral. By that time the fire had grown so large as to be uncontrollable. Arson was immediately dismissed as a possibility and repeatedly it was suggested that a faulty electrical wire was the cause. There was no electricity in the attic whatsoever. It seemed to me at the time, how easy it would be for one of the workmen just before closing time, to have slipped up into the attic, start a fire, and then leave the premises as normal. No one wished to speculate about this possibility or give up claiming that the most likely cause was an electrical fault.
As I saw it, there was a cause for the inability to consider arson. Politically correct wishful thinking didn’t want to risk discovering that the arsonist might be a migrant. I never speculated on who the arsonist might be but was appalled that nobody was interested in whether arson had occurred at all. Once again willful blindness from the left leaves society defenseless against very real dangers.
Even the reporting on this new fire was very strange. Again and again, they repeated that the damage was “not as bad” as with Notre Dame. A five-hundred-year-old organ was completely destroyed and it took 100 firemen hours to defeat the fire. However, don’t be too alarmed because “it wasn’t as bad as Notre Dame.” The sheer lunacy of this attitude should finally be getting through to some of the French. I hope so.
I think it is time to find out who set fire to Notre Dame.
Regards,
Jim
Published in General
How many times have we seen the line “terrorism was ruled out” as the reflex response by the PTB , only to discover it really was terrorism?
The truth is not a concern. Managing the sheeple is the concern.
I’d like to think when renovation work is bring performed on anything considered priceless, extra precautions are taken to ensure there are no fires, floods, sabotage, or other damaging events that happen. This Rwandan refugee wouldn’t to be Muslim, would he? Just sayin’ . . .
Over 800 French churches were vandalized in 2019–just one of the benefits of diversity.
I never thought Notre Dame was an accident. The timing too was perfect, right over Easter week. We never found out why it burned. And the secondary scandal was the poor condition it was in.
The French police have cleared and released that Rwandan who was arrested in connection with the Nantes Cathedral arson fire.
Paul,
Well, of course, if it wasn’t the Rwandan than it couldn’t have been arson. The three fires all just got started simultaneously. So simple. Either a Rwandan or triple spontaneous combustion. So very simple.
Perhaps the French need help. I know just the fellow to contact.
Regards,
Jim
No use. I myself have volunteered numerous times to assist France’s Direction Général de la Sécurité Intérieure (DGSI) who do seem to struggle sometimes with the question of motive, yelling Allah Akbar not being sufficiently clear. Border Control, on the other hand, seems mostly interested in opening up to people with “mental issues.” Pretty discriminatory and opaque way to refer to certain belief systems.
Rwanda is predominantly Catholic. Hmmm.
Tocqueville,
It is really so simple. The French rather than selecting a concept that matches a phenomenon feel that the phenomenon should have the decency to match their favorite concept. Thus everything appears to be neatly defined. That is until you attempt to actually make any use of your analysis in the real world. For some reason, then it fails entirely.
Regards,
Jim
Assign blame, rinse, repeat.
The problem is not that the cathedral was burned down. The problem is that this monument to white racism, homosexual pedophilia exists at all. The man had no choice but to correct the world by its removal.
FJ/JG,
Exactly. Once a doctrine of pure hate is constructed targeting the institutions of Western Civilization and widely promulgated, it is inevitable that someone will act upon it. The relentless Marxist propaganda finally convinces the weak-minded to act out the hate that they have been taught by this perverse ideology.
This is why Democrats had such a hard time understanding that Lee Harvey Oswald, a two-bit communist crank, shot and killed Jack Kennedy. They don’t understand that soulless totalitarianism can result in nothing less than murder. Genocide is the natural end product of this ideology. We are watching the inevitable play out in China again.
Regards,
Jim
The Left Lies.
I am shocked, shocked I tell you.
Truly. I am shocked that this sliver of truth peaked thorough the thicket of leftist lies. Perhaps it was timed to dissipate in the midst of coronavirus pandemic political theater.
Controlling the narrative. Interestingly it fools only the top managerial class of the society. Ask any cleaning lady or taxi driver or mover what’s up and they will tell you.
Tocqueville,
Perhaps they wish to be fooled. They can have their cake and eat it too. They let the monsters run loose damaging ordinary people and they still can avoid the blame for it. Pure evil.
Regards,
Jim
The truth is the enemy of the State….
Goebbels
Update: the suspect has now confessed.
The crime was committed in a rit of fealous jage.
I’m not a lawyer, but I thought that was a writ of fealous jage.