Putting Notre-Dame "under the bell", as claimed by some unions and associations to prevent any risk of lead pollution, poses "a problem of feasibility". This was Tuesday Tuesday Emmanuel Grégoire, first deputy mayor of Paris.
"A decision is incredibly complex to implement"
"We are not against" the confinement of the cathedral, "it is simply a problem of feasibility". "Put a huge bell around Notre Dame" to "create a zone of depression to avoid the exfiltration of dust, everyone understands that, from a technical and financial point of view, it is a decision that is incredibly complex to put "said Emmanuel Grégoire on LCI, while repeating that the yard of Notre-Dame, which must resume the week of August 12, was strictly within the jurisdiction of the state.
The City of Paris is responsible for three types of institutions: crèches, schools and housing for childminders. She posted online Monday night new results of the samples taken in these places and said it would continue to do so as soon as it is available, while other institutions must still be analyzed by the end of the month. The fire that partially destroyed the cathedral on April 15 released in the form of particles several hundred tons of lead contained in the frame of the spire and the roof.
Three schools "peeped"
"All the tests that we have done in the radius of 500 meters around Notre Dame are negative, that is to say that there is no danger," said Emmanuel Grégoire Tuesday. On the other hand, three schools outside this perimeter "beeped" by presenting, in their outdoor courts, lead levels higher than 1,000 micrograms / m2. These schools will be "thoroughly cleaned" by the start of the school year, he insisted, and "will not open until we reach the recommendation of the Regional Health Agency (ARS which is 1,000 micrograms per m2 The Mayor of Paris will not take any risk.
Monday, CGT unionists and members of associations, recently formed in collective, asked the setting bell Notre-Dame, showing particular concern for the health of people having intervened inside the cathedral after the fire or working Around.