REPORTAGE
The fire of Notre-Dame de Paris has not only made unfortunate people. Victor Hugo's novel, for example, quickly reached the head of sales on Amazon. On the outskirts of Notre-Dame, tourists flock to stalls of booksellers to snatch the last memories.
"I have come on purpose, I tell myself that I will never see it again as before, I do not see how it can be rebuilt in five years," says Monique, who came to buy three paintings of the cathedral. But at the same time, scams are multiplying.
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EBay withdraws ads
The fire was not yet extinguished, Monday evening, that already appeared on EBay an ad proposing a so-called piece of the frame of Notre-Dame. The online sales site removed the same evening this announcement. "When we looked at the ad, we had the impression that the seller had taken a photo of a piece of wood in his chimney.Our regulations prohibit the sale of any product that would benefit from this kind of tragedy," says Delphine Dauba- Pantanacce, Legal Director of EBay.
Withdrawn also announcements of dozens of cups or t-shirts inspired by the images of the cathedral on fire ... On the other hand, one always finds on another platform this announcement for a stone statue, replica of a gargoyle, for the sum of ... 38.000 €.
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Beware of scams on donations for rebuilding
The websites that try to take advantage of donations for the reconstruction of the cathedral are also growing. An investigation for "organized gang scam" was opened Friday. According to the prosecutor's office, these "salesmen" called out charitable souls to believe that they would contribute to the reconstruction of the cathedral, except that the transfer went directly to their account.
In a statement released Friday, the Heritage Foundation said for its part have denounced the Paris prosecutor and Google a fraudulent site that takes the main terms of his Internet address. "The following site is fraudulent: https://donfondation-patrimoine-sauvonsnotredame.weebly.com/", says this release. Four organizations (Notre Dame Foundation, Fondation du Patrimoine, Fondation de France and the National Museums Center) are officially responsible for collecting donations for reconstruction.