According to the newspaper, the amount of lead that is hazardous to health was found back in May, but this did not lead to the closure of educational institutions.

Later, the Paris City Hall announced the conduct of "deep cleaning" of educational institutions near Notre Dame.

As the LCI informs, the representative of the city hall assured that the previous tests did not reveal any “alarms”, the decision to clean the schools by the end of July was made “to be sure that the risk was minimal”.

Earlier in the prosecutor's office in Paris reported that the cause of the fire in the Cathedral of Notre Dame could be an extinguished cigarette or a malfunction of electricity.

On April 15, a large fire occurred in Notre Dame that lasted more than 12 hours. Collapsed roof and spire of the cathedral.

Head of the GosNIR monumental sculpture department, Elena Antonova, in an interview with NSN, evaluated the prospects for the restoration of the cathedral.