The iconic Parisian landmark suffered a devastating fire on Monday, with the blaze destroying two-thirds of the ancient cathedral’s roof, its clock and its 300-foot spire.
Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen has called the fire which engulfed the Notre Dame Cathedral a «tragic symbol» of the «apocalyptic loss of values we are witnessing in the Western world,» AP has reported, citing an excerpt from an interview set to be broadcast on Hungarian news channel Hir TV next week.
According to Semjen, France’s «secularist, anti-church policy is also deeply responsible» for Monday’s fire.
«May God allow this tragedy to be a sign which shakes up the French nation, not just regarding the reconstruction of the church but also in terms of their own national self-esteem, their own history, their own Frenchness and their own Christianity,» the politician, who is also the head of Hungary’s Christian Democratic Party, said.
