December 2024 – The cathedral opens on schedule thanks to the soldiers of lead and oak. It looks like a ballroom. Soon, it will be hosting fashion shows. While the Agence R\u00e9gionale de Sant\u00e9 (Regional Health Agency) has a lead barometer around Notre-Dame, inside the cathedral the lead figures remain in the confessional. However, the lead levels inside and outside the cathedral should all be available to the public. Long-term monitoring of the remobilisation of lead residues dispersed during the fire and during the clearing and reconstruction work is essential.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/div> <\/p>\n <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022-07-27-Pb-vitraux-notre-dame-robindesbois.jpeg\")
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\nLead-contaminated waste in big bags on the scaffolding at Notre-Dame, November 28, 2022 \u00a9 Charlotte Nithart \/Robin des Bois<\/div>\n
\n<\/strong>Long version of the opinion article published in\u00a0Lib\u00e9ration\u00a0<\/a>on 6 December 2024 .
\nBy Jacky Bonnemains,\u00a0director of the NGO Robin des Bois,\u00a0Judith Rainhorn,\u00a0historian, Health&Humanities Chair, University Paris 1 Panth\u00e9on-Sorbonne and author of\u00a0Blanc de plomb. Histoire d\u2019un poison l\u00e9gal<\/em>\u00a0(White lead. History of a legal poison, Presses de Sciences Po, 2019) and\u00a0Lex van Geen, geochemist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University New York.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nPublications from Robin des Bois<\/h3>\n
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\nAfter the melting of at least 300 tons of lead in the gables of the spire and in the roof, Notre-Dame de Paris is now a polluted site. (…)
\nFollowing the publication of this press release and the article in Le Figaro entitled \u2018 An environmental NGO is calling for Notre-Dame to be \u201cdecontaminated\u201d\u2019, we unleashed a torrent of insults, offset by a few streams of common sense (pdf in French only<\/a>).
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\nThe screed that had fallen on the ruined cathedral cracked Saturday, April 27, 2019 after the release of a statement co-signed by the Regional Health Agency of Ile-de-France, the prefect police station and the prefecture of Ile-de-France. The three signatories confirm lead pollution attributed to the fire of Notre-Dame de Paris. (…)
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\nThe lead is spinning around the cathedral. The dust flew away from their stony nests and the 4000 scaffolding tubes that leaned against the collapsed spire. Lead is everywhere and it is not displayed anywhere. (…)
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\nThe Ministry of Culture, owner of Notre-Dame de Paris, has confirmed the shaky condition of the vault and flying buttresses of the cathedral. The scaffolding, which is covered with lead dusts and has until then withstood the collapse of the spire and the aftermath of the fire, is also under threat of downfall. (…)
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\nA family whose 3 children are enrolled in the Sainte-Clotilde school, on the 77 rue de Grenelle in Paris, 7th district, summons the headteacher and the diocesan direction for catholic education in Paris for a summary procedure in order to have them check the lead surface concentration (…).
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\nThe information very recently circulated by City hall is not reliable. Only the three schools on the rue Saint-Beno\u00eet were subjected to a \u201ctreatment protocol\u201d carried out by professionals and monitored by health and safety inspection. (…)
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\nAccording to information we just received, the special needs education division (Section d\u2019Enseignement G\u00e9n\u00e9ral et Professionnel Adapt\u00e9, SEGPA) of the Jacques Pr\u00e9vert secondary school, on the rue du Pont de Lodi (Paris, 6th district), will not reopen due to lead contamination.\u00a0(…)
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\nSchoolchildren receive there an individualised education. They have difficulties with the learning process. (…)
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\nThe entrance to the nursery school\u2019s garden at the 17 rue de Verneuil in the 7th district is closed until further notice. (…)
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\nThe Direction R\u00e9gionale des Affaires Culturelles (DRAC, Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs) carries out a test campaign in Paris to assess the distribution of lead dust in the streets near historical monuments. (…)
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\nThis press release concerns the decontamination of the archaeological crypt, the decontamination of the forecourt, the dismantling of the scaffolding and the lead contamination of public spaces.
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\nThe cathedral remains in a precarious state. It is a permanent source of pollution from lead dust and other metalloids released by the fire. The scaffolding that encircled the cathedral spire is still in place. It too is a major source of lead dust remobilisation. (…)
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\nDuring mass on Sunday 31 May 2020, the holy trinity made up of the City Hall, the Archbishop\u2019s Palace and the Ministry of Culture preached to the press about the relics on the damaged square in front of Notre-Dame de Paris. (…)
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\nPress release following the fire at Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul cathedral in Nantes.
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\nOn Friday 14 May 2021, the Agence R\u00e9gionale de Sant\u00e9 (Regional Health Agency) issued a press release stating that an increase in lead levels in the forecourt of Notre-Dame de Paris had been detected since 26 April. (…)
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\nThe Maurice Car\u00eame promenade (150 metres long, 4 metres wide) between Notre-Dame and the Seine will be disfigured. (…)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\n\u00a9 CN\/Robin des Bois<\/center><\/p>\n<\/a>Garden of the Nueve Fighters, closed for “renewal work” following a campaign to measure pollution by heavy metals including lead,
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