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Nine cigarette butts discarded by workers carried traces of their DNA, but four others went unaccounted for. Perhaps the workmen on the scaffolding surrounding the cathedral had been smoking, in defiance of safety rules. Perhaps an electrical malfunction was at fault. Their testimony allowed the Procurator of France to reaffirm the official claim, while adding that “nothing permits the accreditation of the hypothesis of a criminal origin.” Investigators, who went to work almost as soon as the fire department arrived at the scene of the inferno, have therefore conducted their inquiries in other directions.

The firefighters affirm as one man that the fire destroyed, among so many other things, every trace of its causation. Why then was it brought in to handle a case involving the accidental near-destruction of Notre-Dame? As Valeurs notes, the famous brigade is generally employed in cases involving homicides, kidnappings for ransom, and so on-personal crimes of the sort Georges Simenon’s Jules Maigret was charged with solving.

I do not say that an accident is impossible, but I claim the right to investigate.”ĭupont-Aignan’s skepticism is supported by the fact that on April 25 the brigade criminelle was granted access to the scene to investigate the cathedral. “I have informed myself of the business, I have discussed it with the connaisseurs of Notre-Dame: it would require a sequence of exceptional circumstances to set fire to such a frame. Four months later, as reported in a three-part feature printed in Valeurs Actuelles (22 August 2019), Dupont-Aignan was persisting in his skepticism in the face of condemnation by the political class. The government’s certainty, he suggested, did not appear to agree with its warning that the inquest into the fire’s origin would be long and difficult. Nicholas Dupont-Aignan, President of Debout la France, was skeptical from the start. The possibility of a deliberate attack upon the cathedral was dismissed. In the professed view of the French government, the disaster could only have been an accident. Twenty-four hours after the blaze at Notre-Dame last April 15 was brought under control, the cause of the fire was officially announced by the Élysée.