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The Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, April 23, 2019, a week after the fire that ravaged her. REUTERS / Gonzalo Fuentes

The Groupement des entreprises des restauration des monuments historiques warns against speeding.

" No rush, the time is to securing, " says Frédéric Letoffe, president of the Group of companies restoration of historic monuments. Before thinking of the restoration of Notre Dame and building all sorts of more or less ambitious projects , it is necessary to set up an umbrella to protect the cathedral from bad weather, even though it has already received large quantities of water intended to extinguish the fire.

In a second step, it will be necessary to install a assembly of beams to support the vaults, in order to avoid a collapse. For this specialized companies will remove some 1,000m² of stained glass. In addition, next week, workers will begin to remove rubble. This work will be long and meticulous as the rubble will be carefully examined by the police to determine the cause of the fire.

The diagnosis phase prior to the restoration of Notre-Dame can only begin after these security works, which mobilize 80 people day and night.