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schema:url	http://www.snopes.com/fact-check/french-cathedral-fires-map/
schema:text	A map claiming to show French churches that had been "destroyed," "vandalized" or "attacked" has spread across social media for years. We found the map often spreads in the wake of large fires at French churches that make global headlines. For instance, we first observed the map spreading across social media platforms after the Notre Dame cathedral caught fire in April 2019. On July 11, 2024, as a fire that was later contained broke out on the spire of a French cathedral, social media posts started to spread the map once again. When we fact-checked the claim in 2019, we found posts blamed the Notre Dame fire on Muslims and connected the incident (which authorities reportedly said was likely an accident at the time) to churches that had been recently vandalized in France. Social media posts containing the claim in 2024 continued to baselessly blame Muslims for the incidents documented on the map. One X account commented on a post that contained the map: "This will only get worst. Those Islamists will first burn churches, then murder Christians and Jews." However, those claims weren't true. In 2019, we found this map came from christianophobie.fr, a website dedicated to tracking acts of "Christianophobia" in France and the rest of the world. While this image is often shared as if it shows all of the churches that were "destroyed" in France, the map actually documented a wide range of nefarious activity — such as vandalism, theft, and arson — that occurred at both churches and cemeteries over an apparent span of two years covering 2017 and 2018. It should also be noted that while this map documented some relatively serious crimes, such as arson or the toppling of church statues, many of these pins corresponded to graffiti-related incidents. We also found one pin related to a person simply interrupting a church service. We've fact-checked other claims about French churches before, like whether photographs authentically showed the real skull of Mary Magdalene inside a gold reliquary.
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schema:datePublished	2024-07-12 (xsd:date)
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