Rouen’s cathedral spire catches fire in Normandy
Plume of smoke seen rising from cathedral, one of France’s finest which was painted by Claude Monet
The spire of the gothic cathedral in the French city of Rouen in Normandy caught fire during renovation works on Thursday, in scenes reminiscent of the fire at Notre Dame in Paris in 2019.
Initial television images on BFM showed a dark plume of smoke rising from the spire and people in the streets below looking up in horror. In later images, smoke could still be seen through a gap in the white cover encircling the scaffolding around the spire but it was no longer rising in a dark column.
