French detectives investigating the Notre Dame fire have questioned workers who had been restoring the iconic Paris cathedral. READ MORE:* Notre Dame: Full coverage* Rebuilding will be long, fraught and expensive* Notre Dame fire: How human chain saved treasures* In pictures: Inferno rips through Notre Dame cathedral* Cause of Notre Dame fire is being treated as an accident* Video: Notre Dame's famous 96-metre high spire collapses* Notre Dame fire: Fighting a blaze in a 12th century cathedral​The highly respected specialist company has restored cathedrals and churches in Strasbourg, Reims, Poitiers, Verdun, Amiens and other French cities. CEDRIC HERPSON/AP Flames and smoke rise from the blaze at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on Monday. Le Bras was full of pride when he gave an interview in 2017 about his firm being chosen to restore Notre Dame. Bernard Fonquernie, an architect who worked on Notre Dame from 1978 to 1990, said: "The inquiry will show what happened.

Source: Stuff April 17, 2019 01:48 UTC