In May 2022, Russian media published a video that states a fire arranged in the town of Wulfen with refugees from Ukraine. We checked the reliability of such messages.
May 19 Readovka Published A note under the heading "Ukrainian refugees set fire to the house of a German girl who sheltered them." With reference to the German magazine, Bild claims that refugees "in an attempt to burn the Russian flag destroyed the whole house that the Germans provided to them." “The symbolism of the Russian Federation did not like so much that they decided to get rid of it right on the threshold of housing. Refugees took the Russian flag on the porch and, with the help of the Tesla transformer "spectacularly set it on fire. At first everything was according to plan, but later the flame spread to the room. It was completely covered by fire, ”says Readovka. The publication also attached a 30-second video to the text illustrating the described events.
Other media have released similar materials, including "Komsomolskaya Pravda", "Moscow 24", "Tsargrad", Eurasia Daily, Pravda.ru, newspaper "Work", IA "Red Spring", "Federal News Agency" and others.
We were not able to find materials about a fire on the Bild website allegedly arranged by Ukrainian refugees. This is not stated in other German publications. Nothing Not reporting The alleged fire and police of the Federal Land Saxony-Anhalt, responsible for Wulfen, allegedly incident in mid-May.
The video was widely known not only in the Russian -language segment of the Internet. It attracted the attention of factor from different countries, including from projects Correctiv, AFP Deutschland, DELFI and others. As our colleagues found out, which has become a viral video actually collected from three different records.
The first of them, which captures the work of Tesla's coil, is taken from Instagram* user @marek415. This blog is conducted by the Czech student Marek Novotny, who is fond of electronics. In the comments for AFP Novotny confirmedthat in mid -March he recorded a video with the coil of Tesla and the Russian flag in order to express support to Ukraine. Subsequently, Novotov deleted the video.
The second component of the video is much older. The personnel rented outside the burning house have nothing to do with the events of 2022 - they are taken from the video, published On YouTube nine years earlier. Later, the video was added to the video by the Bild German magazine. In addition to the video, the screenshot of the first strip of the magazine with a frame from this video was also dispersed on the Internet. Deputy Chief Editor Bild described Similar publications as an “absolute fake”.
Finally, the third part of the video is a video shot inside the house supposedly burned by refugees. In fact, the record was Made Back in January 2021 in Lower Saxony, 300 km from Wulfen.
AFP Deutschland Contacted With a police station, whose zone of work includes Wulfen. The police officer told reporters that as of May 20, he and his colleagues were not aware of fires with the participation of Ukrainian refugees.
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Instagram, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.
Photo on the cover: YouTube
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- AFP Deutschland. Diese “Bild” -Berichte über ukranische Flüchtlinge als Brandversacher Sind Gefälscht
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