"Never again !" : this is the title of the new subscription that intends to launch Tuesday the Heritage Foundation for the most urgent cases among 2,800 sites threatened in France, at the same time it will close its fundraising for Notre Dame. "The subscription will concern the most endangered sites among 2,800 threatened, especially in terms of security," said the president of the Heritage Foundation Guillaume Poitrinal.
"Secure the Mont Saint-Michel frame"
The Foundation, one of the four institutions selected for fund-raising, to prevent scams, has so far raised 218 million euros, for 224,600 donations, according to Guillaume Poitrinal. "We must be reasonable, we must know stop," he said, while welcoming the "historic" mobilization in favor of the restoration of Notre-Dame, nearly a month after the spectacular fire that ravaged the cathedral.
Many sites are now at risk across France. "I would very much like the security of the Mont Saint-Michel or the Pierre Loti house, which has been closed for 15 years," said Guillaume Poitrinal as examples.
"The heritage is poorly maintained and fragile overall"
"In the mission (Stephane) Bern, we have identified two billion euros of investment needs in the so-called endangered French heritage, that is to say buildings that collapse, bridges that are prohibited at public, theaters, municipal museums, churches that suffer, "he said. "It can range from the little washhouse that is disappearing, war memorials, locomotives of heritage interest, to the lighthouses that are falling into the sea, we have everything," he said. still specified. The president of the Foundation has called for the "message behind the tragedy of Our Lady" and the "awareness that the heritage is poorly maintained and fragile" in order to keep it safe.
The total collection of Notre-Dame should reach according to him the 900 million. "The small donors are very numerous and they must be served first," pleaded the president of the Foundation. In case of surplus, "the big fortunes are open to the idea of reallocation of their donations because naturally they do not want to pay money that will not be used," he says. "It's something we do on a lot of projects, there's no diversion, it's in consultation with the big donors." Among the places of worship, some 5,000 buildings would decay, according to the Observatory of religious heritage (OPR).