A volunteer from the diocese of Nantes was indicted overnight from Saturday to Sunday, then placed in pre-trial detention. He is suspected of being involved in the fire at Nantes cathedral on July 18, the Nantes public prosecutor announced on Sunday. He was indicted for "destruction and damage by fire". 

A volunteer from the diocese was indicted and remanded in custody overnight from Saturday to Sunday as part of the investigation opened after the fire in Nantes cathedral on July 18, the public prosecutor announced on Sunday. by Nantes Pierre Sennès. Placed in police custody on Saturday morning, he was indicted "on charges of destruction and damage by fire and remanded in custody by the judge of freedoms and detention," said the prosecutor in an email.

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"Favor the criminal track"

"The first results communicated by the central laboratory of the Prefecture of police of Paris lead to privilege the criminal track", specifies the prosecutor. The volunteer of the diocese was arrested in the wake of the fire, and released the next day without prosecution, as part of the investigation opened for "arson" by the prosecution.