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posted by janrinok on Wednesday April 17 2019, @12:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the even-SN-is-vulnerable dept.

From the insides of Business Insider

As a huge fire took hold of Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral on Monday evening, alt-right figures were in no time spreading rumours and disinformation on social media linking the blaze to Muslims and hinting at a sinister cover up.

French officials on Monday night were quick to say that arson was unlikely to be the cause of the blaze as it engulfed the roof of the 12th century cathedral, but far-right activists and propagandists were already all over social media channels pushing conspiracies.

Conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec compared the blaze to 9/11, despite no link having made to terrorism by French officials, while alt-right activist Faith Goldy falsely claimed that three days previously "a Muslim jihadis [sic] in Paris was arrested for planning a terrorist attack at Notre-Dame Cathedral.

Funny, there was this little AC scurrying about here on SN yesterday, saying things like this.

...but well countered here, also by an AC:

See Also:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/16/notre-dame-fire-investigators-seek-cause-of-cathedral-blaze-paris

Police have begun questioning workers who were carrying out renovations at the cathedral. The Paris prosecutor's office has opened an inquiry into "involuntary destruction by fire", indicating they believe the cause of the blaze was accidental rather than criminal.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/notre-dame-fire-cause-everything-know-cathedral-paris/

The Paris prosecutor's office said it was treating the fire as an accident, ruling out arson and possible terror-related motives, at least for now.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @03:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @03:06PM (#831070)

    Besides, most of the actually malevolent people tend to brag about their evil.

    Aye¹, and you can expect them along sometime real soon now to claim responsibility...

    I view the whole thing as only an excuse for the mass purchase of popcorn (lovingly popped in the glowing embers of Notre Dame...what a missed opportunity....), but, if I *were* some sort of 'evul Illuminatuannunakilderberger' out to cause massive amounts of 'fear' in a 'multicultural' society I'd carry out these sort of anonymous operations and then let the target populaces pick out their own favoured scapegoats based on their own petty prejudices as being the culprits...(my bet on the cause of this fire? a crack team of suicide vampyren....)

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    ¹ Actually, the most 'malevolant' person I've ever come across never bragged about anything he'd ever done, his reputation, however, was well known to those people who employed (though that isn't quite the right word, he never did anything for money, deployed would probably be better) him.