The pictures from the Stock Exchange show a charred interior. But only in half the building, which was undergoing renovation at the same time. An old firewall may have saved the rest of the building from destruction, reports Ekstrabladet.
– If it weren’t for that, the rest of the building wouldn’t be standing here now, says operations manager Ole Simonsen to the newspaper.
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But the supporting structures have been burned away and with the help of 40-50 containers filled with concrete blocks it will be stabilized. A work that is currently underway, reports TV2.
However, what caused the fire is still unclear and it may be difficult to determine.
– It can be difficult when things have fallen on each other. But we have employees there who are insanely good at it, says Brian Belling, deputy police inspector at Copenhagen Police, to TV2.
People flock to the place
In what many have described as Denmark’s Notre Dame, people have flocked to Slotsholmen to witness what happened.
Many people that TV2 spoke to on the spot are sad and upset about the fire.
– My first reaction was “no, it can’t happen, it just can’t happen” and then everything stopped, says a woman to the channel.
Another man who went in with his wife from the outskirts of Copenhagen says that “it’s sad. It is sad and sad. It is 400 years that have been lost”
And those the channel spoke to agree, they want to see a rebuilding of the Stock Exchange. For one person, the dragon scepter was something that had always been there and that it had become part of who she was as a person, an identity that had now been taken from her.
Whether the Stock Exchange will be reconstructed is not yet clear. But Denmark’s Minister of Culture writes on X that he will do everything he can to once again see the fallen dragon scepter towering over Copenhagen again.