[NEWS] Trump offers condolences, assistance to France’s Macron after Notre-Dame fire: White House – Loganspace AI

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump at some point of a phone call on Tuesday expressed condolences to French President Emmanuel Macron over the Notre-Dame fireplace that devastated the Parisian landmark and equipped U.S. assistance in rehabilitating the cathedral, the White Residence acknowledged.

“Notre Dame will proceed to wait on as a symbol of France, collectively with its freedom of faith and democracy,” White Residence spokeswoman Sarah Sanders acknowledged in an announcement. “We have in mind with grateful hearts the tolling of Notre Dame’s bells on September 12, 2001, in solemn recognition of the tragic September 11th attacks on American soil. Those bells will sound again.”  

Macron has pledged to rebuild the cathedral, which is taken into consideration amongst primarily the most challenging examples of European Gothic structure and visited by more than 13 million of us from across the enviornment a twelve months.

Within 24 hours of Monday’s blaze, French companies and local authorities had pledged more than 700 million euros to rebuild the cathedral, collectively with 500 million from the three billionaire households that contain France’s luxury items empires Kering, LVMH and L’Oreal.

The fireplace has additionally promoted fundraising amongst People, with Unusual York-primarily based mostly French Heritage Society and the Mosey Fund Me crowdsourcing platform amongst the most most important to provide support.

The heritage charity Fondation du Patrimoine acknowledged it changed into too early to estimate the tag of the damages. Authorities bellow they suspected the fireplace changed into introduced on by accident.