In a tweet, Alice Weidel, the parliamentary group leader of the Alternative for Germany, the country's largest opposition party, implied a connection between the blaze which broke out on Monday and previous anti-Christian 'attacks' in France.
Smoke billows as flames burn through the roof of the Notre-Dame Cathedral on Monday in Paris.A leader of Germany's far-right AfD party on Tuesday tried to link the devastating fire at Paris's Notre-Dame cathedral to rising"intolerance" against Christians in Europe, although French investigators believe the inferno was an accident.
In a tweet, Alice Weidel, the parliamentary group leader of the Alternative for Germany, the country's largest opposition party, implied a connection between the blaze which broke out on Monday and previous anti-Christian"attacks" in France. "During Holy Week #NotreDame burns. March: second largest church Saint-Sulpice burns. February: 47 attacks in France," Weidel wrote.
"The Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe speaks of a significant increase," she added, including a link to a March article in a German Catholic magazine headlined"Catholic churches desecrated across France". The Notre-Dame blaze, which brought the iconic building's towering spire and roof crashing down, is being treated by French investigators as an"involuntary fire" and they have advanced no other theory.
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