3rd word Immigrants have set fire to The Gothic Basilica of Saint-Michael in Bordeaux which was built between the late 14th century and the 16th century (1330 to the 1500s). European heritage & history will soon be nothing but ashes without Remigration.<\/p>\n
This is what the video attached to the post looked like on X at the time of writing: <\/p>\n
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Image source: post by @TruthFairy131 on X.<\/p>\n
On July 7, 2026, Nicolas Corne<\/a> (archived here<\/a>), a press officer for the Bordeaux City Hall<\/a>, told Lead Stories via email:<\/p>\n … l’incendie a \u00e9t\u00e9 rapidement maitris\u00e9 par les pompiers et la police municipale de Bordeaux. Cela s’est produit samedi 4 juillet vers 20h.<\/p>\n C’est une tente de personne sans domicile qui a brul\u00e9, origine pour l’instant inconnue, mais sans rapport avec l’\u00e9glise voisine.<\/p>\n Le feu n’a pas eu d’impact sur la basilique Saint Michel.<\/p>\n As translated by DeepL<\/a>, his statement read:<\/p>\n … the fire was quickly brought under control by the Bordeaux Fire Department and municipal police. It occurred on Saturday, July 4, around 20 h [around 8 p.m. local time on July 4, 2026].<\/p>\n A tent belonging to a homeless person caught fire; the cause is unknown at this time, but the incident was unrelated to the nearby church.<\/p>\n The fire had no impact on the Basilica of Saint Michel.<\/p>\n A search across Google News for the French keywords seen here<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) didn’t show any credible news reports suggesting otherwise.<\/p>\n A reverse image search showed that a video similar to the one shared in the viral post reviewed in this fact check was published<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) on July 5, 2026, by Actu Bordeaux — a French local news outlet that NewsGuard<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) scored highly<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) as a very reliable source of information. As translated by Chrome, the Actu Bordeaux report clearly stated that the “fire broke out at the foot of the Saint-Michel Basilica,” not inside the building, and that the blaze did not damage the church. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did people born outside France or French territories set the Saint-Michel Basilica in Bordeaux on fire in July…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7434,5,31781,31782,31783,31780],"class_list":["post-47879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-bordeaux","tag-france","tag-french-territories","tag-lead-stories","tag-saint-michel","tag-saint-michel-basilica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}