In Nantes, a blaze shattered the city cathedral’s historic stained glass windows and likely destroyed its 17th-century organ.
“My client is cooperating,” Quentin Chabert, an attorney on behalf of the volunteer, told reporters in Nantes but provided no information on the suspect’s motives.
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On Sunday, July 26, French police arrested and charged a church volunteer who has admitted to setting a fire that severely damaged the interiors of the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes.
The 39-year old man, a Rwandan asylum-seeker whose identity remains concealed, had previously been questioned and released on the suspension of setting the fire in the 15th-century cathedral. He was detained again on Saturday after new forensic evidence determined that the blaze on July 18 was likely a result of arson, according to the local prosecutor’s office.
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