Spontaneous Combustion?

[Jolly]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53455142

[Mik]

In three spots? Unlikely.

[Jolly]

In custody...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-nantes-fire-cathedral/man-in-custody-after-nantes-cathedral-fire-french-tv-idUSKCN24K0B0

[George K]

https://www.fr24news.com/a/2020/07/rwandan-asylum-seeker-admits-to-setting-fire-to-french-cathedral-news.html

The 39-year-old defendant, an asylum seeker from Rwanda who has lived in France for several years, was arrested earlier this month after laboratory tests determined arson was the likely cause of the fire, the local prosecutor’s office said.

“My client cooperated,” lawyer Quentin Chabert told the newspaper Presse-Océan on Sunday, without specifying the reasons for the attempt to burn down the cathedral of Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul.

“He bitterly regrets his actions… My client is consumed with remorse,” said Chabert.

Glenn Reynolds comments -

In the words of Mark Twain: “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”

[Mik]

Yup.

[Jolly]

I'd sentence that sucker to twenty years.

Working on that church. Wake up in prison, go to work, come back. Six days a week. Sundays, you wake up in prison and you go to church to pray for forgiveness.