Suicide Closes Notre Dame In Paris, Saddening Many Tourists 8.99K Ken Layne 05/21/13 10:43AM Filed to: guns guns france paris notre dame suicide tourists europe The beloved 850-year-old cathedral on Île de la Cité is closed after a man reportedly shot himself inside the historic tourist trap visited by 12 million people a year. The man was an anti-gay marriage fanatic.