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A photo has been shared in multiple Facebook and Twitter posts that claim it shows a mosque set on fire by “extremists” in France. The claim is false: the image shows a mosque in the US state of Connecticut where a fire broke out in 2019.
The image was posted here on Facebook on April 12, 2021 in a group with more than 16,000 members. In France, extremists set fire to two mosques, Muslim lives in danger. See the picture. And our leader, Saad Rizvi, was arrested for demanding the French ambassador be expelled from Pakistan,” reads the post’s Urdu-language caption.