Investigation into Notre-Dame fire five years on

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00:00Images seen across the world.

00:02April 15th, 2019.

00:04Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral in flames.

00:07Parisians and tourists watch the scene in shock.

00:10The fire was able to spread through the entire building,

00:13even toppling its famous spire,

00:16sending it crashing into the cathedral's roof.

00:19The next day, investigators started taking samples

00:22to test from underneath the rubble.

00:24Quickly, criminal motives were ruled out.

00:27Instead, the cause of the fire was suspected

00:29to be related to restoration work

00:31being done on the cathedral,

00:33a worker not properly extinguishing a cigarette butt.

00:36After investigating this theory, though,

00:38it was determined to be wrong.

00:41During the restoration process,

00:42several temporary electrical devices were being used,

00:45and this is believed to be a more likely cause.

00:48The electrical trail,

00:52because it was discovered that in Notre-Dame's towers,

00:54for the bells in the spire,

00:56there were all these electrical systems

00:58that were strictly banned in this old structure

01:01from the Middle Ages.

01:04Five and a half years after the fire,

01:06the investigation is still underway,

01:08and no theory has been definitively ruled out.

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