The Orthodox Church is also in the firing line, after Patriarch Daniel failed to show solidarity with the victims of the nightclub fire and said young people could avoid accidents by going to church rather than nightclubs. It took him six days to apologize, by which time protesters were calling on his church to start paying taxes on its properties and halt the construction of a cathedral in Bucharest estimated to cost around €300 million of taxpayers’ money. Orthodox priests have been accused of corruption too, and criticized for driving expensive cars in the second poorest nation in the EU.
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