Two stone thieves were arrested in the Notre-Dame restoration site. - CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP

In full confinement to fight against the coronavirus, two thugs were arrested Tuesday by the police on the restoration site at the Notre-Dame de Paris stop. That evening around 7:30 p.m., two guards spot two intruders inside the cathedral, reports Le Parisien. The guards immediately report the event to the police from the 5th district police station, who come running. On site, they discover, hidden under a tarpaulin, the two individuals identified, drunk and in possession of a small stock of stones from the age-old building.

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"Notre-Dame has always been a fantasy," explains André Finot, spokesperson for Notre-Dame, to the regional daily. There is a black market. There are cathedral stones for sale on eBay. Except that they are false. "

The two men have been placed in police custody with passage to a sobering-up cell and will be dealing with justice. The story does not say if the two burglars had Tuesday evening their certificate of derogatory displacement, duly completed.

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