Images showing a partial fire at the BNH building circulated on social media on the evening of April 4. Speaking on the weekend morning show on Magik 9, Sunday, April 21, the institution's director, Dangelo Néard, was unable to provide precise information about the fire. "We do not have objective evidence of the library fire," he said. However, "we know that it has been ransacked and looted two or three times by criminals."

No assessment of the attacks has yet been made. Officials are unable to evaluate the damage. According to the director-general, law enforcement agencies do not yet have the necessary operational capacity to assist them in entering the library.