During her first visit to the site on Thursday, July 28, Rima Abdul-Malak considered that this date certainly represented an “ambitious objective”, due to an “extremely complex project”, but remained the course.
Le Monde with AFP
The CAP is maintained at 2024. The Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul-Malak, has indeed assured that the reopening to the public of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral remained scheduled for 2024, during its first Visit on the site, Thursday July 28. She recognized that this date represented an “ambitious objective”, due to an “extremely complex project”.
This promise of a reopening of the cathedral to the public fixed at the year of the Paris Olympic Games had been formulated by the Head of State, Emmanuel Macron, on the evening of the spectacular fire which had ravaged the building April 15, 2019.
“We are quite confident, all, collectively, so that the year 2024 (…) is the culmination year of a large part of this project, in any case of the opening of the cathedral to worship and to the public “, reaffirmed M Me Abdul-Malak Thursday.
a site currently in its second phase
Last week, General Jean-Louis Georgelin, in charge of the catering of the cathedral, had declared in an interview in Le Figaro that ‘A reopening on this horizon was “a tense, rigorous and complicated objective”, without however questioning the calendar fixed by the executive for three years.
“For the moment, nothing, nothing, nothing allows to say that the objective of 2024 will not be held,” he insisted on Thursday in front of the press.
The site, with a total budget of 850 million euros, is currently in its second phase, that of reconstruction, after a first period of security and consolidation of the building completed in September 2021, which allowed to stabilize this masterpiece of Gothic art.
will follow a third phase of external reconstruction of the cathedral, then the development of the forecourt which depends on the town hall of Paris.
The fire of Notre -Dame – whose causes have still not been established with certainty – had caused the collapse of its frame, its arrow, its clock and part of its vault, ravaged by flames.