Is it true that Ukrainian refugees killed a German volunteer who spoke Russian?

Internet users share a video in social networks in which a woman talks about a crime committed in Germany by several Ukrainians. We checked the reliability of such publications.

Starting on March 20, 2021, publications with an identical text appear on VKontakte like “In the German city of Oyskirhen, Ukrainians scored to the death of a 16-year-old volunteer who helped refugees. The guy did not please what he spoke in Russian ”and some additions-for example,“ the first victims have already made ”and“ the question of the time when in other countries, where Ukrainian immigrants (Moldova, Romania, Poland, Latvia) will go from verbal rudeness to real massacres of people most actively. ” Such posts appeared, in particular, in public "Donbass Today", "The art of war", "Shark", "Daring square", "Russia VS NATO" And "Bad news | Tin. Crimea" (each of them signed from 25,000 to 655,000 people). News divided And users of other social networks.

The publications about the murder of a volunteer published on VKontakte and on other platforms are often accompanied by a video in which a woman addresses "all Russian -speaking in Germany." She, citing her unnamed girlfriend, says that at the station in the city of Oyskirhen under a kernot, a crowd of Ukrainians beat up to a half-death of a 16-year-old guy named Daniel. He fell into a coma and later died in a hospital, the attackers were not held accountable.

It should be noted that in the video a woman does not say that the allegedly deceased young man was a volunteer who attacked it were refugees, and not the use of the Russian language that constantly lived in Germany and the reason for the attack was the reason for the attack. These details added to the history of beating later users of social networks and some media (for example, "Federal News Agency").

Oyskirhen is a small town in the west of Germany, in which about 50,000 people live. Criminal crimes committed in Oyskirhen are investigated by the police of the city of Bonn. In a statement published in the late evening of March 20, the department reportedthat “has no information about this cruel attack, or about the death of a teenager,” and announced the beginning of the audit. The next day, the press secretary of the department Simon Rott confirmed Deutsche Welle that "there was no such incident."

Our colleagues-factor found out that the original video, which became viral not only on the Russian-speaking Internet, but also in the German-speaking one, is taken from the user's Tiktok account under the nickname NATALIABENDET. Now the video is removed from her profile, and on March 21 a woman Published New video. In it, she said that she wanted to know when the funeral of Daniel would take place, and "it turned out to be fiction." The user asked for forgiveness from everyone who was misleading: “I just believed, I did not have any facts, no photographs, no evidence. <...> I want you to not make the same mistake as me. Do not believe anyone without confirmation. ”

Photo on the cover: Reuters / Fabrizio Bensch

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Read on the topic:

1. Reuters. FACT Check-FALSE Claims that ukranians Killed a Teenage Boy in Germany
2. Deutsche Welle. Fact Check: WAS A 16-YEAR -LD RUSSIAN Beaten to Death by A Group of Ukraine?
3. Bild. ES GIBT WEDER FALL NOCH OPFER! Polizei: Video, Das Seit Sonntag Kursiert, Ist Eine Fälschung ++ Urheberin Entschuldigt Sich
4. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Fake News über Straftat: Den Mord an einem russen in euskirchen gab es nicht