Construction workers ignored the Smoking ban in front of Notre-Dame-Brand

in Front of the fire in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame have to respect the workers on the roof, the strict non-Smoking rules. The acknowledged, the company that erected the scaffolding around the steeple. The trigger of the fire the but.

in Front of the fire of Notre Dame some of the workers smoked, apparently, on the construction site. The construction workers had disregarded the ban on Smoking on the scaffolding to miss and notified the police, who determined the cause of the fire. A spokesman for the company Le Bras Frères, which built the scaffolding around Notre-Dame said. He thereby confirmed such reports.

Apparently, seven cigarette butts

employees of the company were on the roof of the Cathedral for the renovation of a scaffold in order for the 90-metre high pointed tower work, collapsed in the fire. Company spokesman Marc Eskenazi pleaded for understanding for the workers who had disregarded the Smoking ban. It was "a bit difficult, from the scaffold to descend, because that takes time".

The satirical and investigative newspaper "Le Canard Enchaîné" wrote that seven cigarette butts on the scaffolding, discovered. The investigators would be in addition to the hypothesis of a short circuit in the electric motors of the elevators to the stands.

the speaker of The scaffolding company from the castle as well. There had been "no problems" with the engines, he said. In addition, they were far from the spire.