This week, Telegram channels distributed a couple of covers of foreign publications with cartoons on the statement of Pope Francis about the cruelty of the Buryats and Chechens. We checked the reliability of these images.
French magazine Charlie Hebdo
The first cover, which dispersed over the network at the end of November 2022, allegedly published the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. In one of the publications with this picture It is said The following: "Charlie Hebdo went through the completely idiotic statement of Pope, who stated that" Buryats and Chechens are particularly cruel. " The French, obviously, hint at the "love" of the Catholic Church for children, there, like a boy, "holds" from a dangerous storm. " The viral caricature depicts the head of the Catholic Church, who feels the child lower than the back and says (the translation from the French language is taken from the aforementioned post): “Keep your children away from these cruel and dangerous Buryats!” Nearby a man is drawn in Buddhist robes, photographing Jesus on crucifixion.
You can meet publications with this cover in Telegram channels "Ostashko! Important"(99,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Venocor Kitten Z"(197 000, already deleted),"Type40k goblina (Oper.ru)"(216 000),"Uncle Glory"(77 00),"Before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation"(11,000) and"Rogandar News: news, facts, events!"(46,000), in public in VKontakte (examples here, here And here) and on the personal pages of users (here, here And here), as well as in blogs on "Zen". The caricature also dispersed by Twitter (here, here And here).
To begin with, we will analyze the facts that served as “sources of inspiration” for the author of the caricature in question. We are talking about the statement of the pope, which is the one did, commenting on the conflict in Ukraine during an interview with American magazine. A conversation with a pontiff took place on November 22, 2022, and its text was published on November 28. During her, the correspondent said that in the United States many were embarrassed by the pope’s reluctance to directly criticize Russia, and asked why Francis preferred to talk about the end of the war with general formulations. “When I am talking about Ukraine, I am talking about the people who accepted martyrdom. If there are martyrs, there is someone who torments them. When I am talking about Ukraine, I am talking about cruelty, because I have a lot of information about the cruelty of the forced troops. In general, the most cruel ones are probably those who are from Russia, but do not adhere to the Russian tradition, such as Chechens, Buryats and so on. Of course, this is the invasion of the Russian state. This is completely clear. Sometimes I try not to specify, so as not to offend, but rather to condemn in general, although it is well known who I condemn. It is not necessary that I indicate the name and surname, ”the pontiff answered.
In Buryatia located The residence of Pandito Hambo Lama Dumb Ayusheev, the head of the Buddhist traditional Sangha of Russia. Ayusheev answered Dad that the Buryats are not cruel, but simply fight with fascism: “Unexpectedly and unexpectedly, the head of the Catholics of the world was forced to speak about our people with unkind words. I think that European Latin is not clear that life in cold Siberia and in the Far East makes people more persistent, patient and resilient to various adversity. Therefore, our people are not cruel, they are simply forced to re -defend their homeland from fascism, like our grandfathers and great -grandfathers. ”
The artist remembered the Catholic Church numerous Scandals Around sexual harassment and molesters of minors. For example, the BBC publication with reference to the statement of the head of an independent commission for investigating cases of sexual violence in the Church of Jean-Marc reportedThat in the Catholic Church of France since the 1950s have been operated by thousands of pedephils priests. And in CNN with reference to the study of Westphalian University named after Wilhelm They wrotethat in the period from 1945 to 2020, Catholic priests subjected sexual abuse of more than 600 children in the diocese of the city of Munster.
And what about the cover itself?
On it in the upper left corner it is indicated that this is a special release (Numéro Spécial) Charlie Hebdo for November 30, 2022 at number 1585. classic The algorithm we checked the official accounts of the French edition in Twitter, Facebook* And Instagram*, as well archive The covers on the magazine website did not find a pontiff viral carication there. The last time special issue, according to the site, I went out June 1, 2022 and was at number 101. In addition, in the figure in the lower right corner you can notice the signature of the artist (COCO), however in the archive indicatedthat the last covers with her work came out at the end of 2020.
We could not accurately determine the source of the image and its author, but the earliest publication in Telegram, which we found, appeared November 30 at 11:51 Moscow time in the channel Putin in Telegram (204,000 views). Earlier, we have repeatedly denied posts with fake coverings, and the Putin in Telegram channel was mentioned in at least three of our texts. So, at least two fake Charlie Hebdo covers placed in it (our analysis can be read here And here) and one cover of the Spanish magazine El Jueves.
I would like to note that the authors of Fake got confused not only in the issues of releases, but also in the numbers on the barcode. The fact is that all standard numbers (at least over the past couple of years) come out with the following code: L 14057, after which the serial number of the magazine is indicated. Special issue for June 1 under the number 101 I went out with another code: L 17148 - 1H. Fake turned out something average: L 17158 - 1585.
The real cover of Charlie Hebdo for November 30 laid out In the social networks of the publication on November 29. It is in no way connected with the pope and was Under the number 1584, not 1585. On the Charlie Hebdo YouTube channel look Animated version of this cover. Since this is weekly The magazine, the original 1585th issue should go on sale only on December 7th.
Turkish magazine Leman
The Turkish caricature associated with Pope began to diverge on December 1, the day after the Charlie Hebdo fake cover. In the figure, the pontiff pointing a finger at a person in a Chechen national costume and says (a translation from Turkish is taken from a viral publication): “Chechens! Real Zhudyers! Not like we! " At the same time, the Nazi, the cross-country man, as well as a priest with a child stand on one side with Francis (apparently, this is another hint of scandals around the molestation of children). Behind the dad you can see as if a burned body, which probably refers to the burning of heretics or women accused of witchcraft.
Posts with this cover can be found in Telegram channels "Solovyov"(217,000 views at the time of writing this text),"Ostashko! Important"(94,000),"Gasparyan"(283,000),"Before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation"(11,000) and"Polish people of his"(66 000). In addition to the Plings of TV presenters Ruslan Ostashko And Vladimir Solovyov, the cover was lit up in small communities on VKontakte (examples here, here And here) and on the personal pages of users (here, here And here).
We have already brought a quote from the pope about the cruelty of Chechens above. The head of the Chechen Republic Mazhman Kadyrov in his Telegram channel criticized The head of the Catholic Church, calling Francis "a victim of propaganda and perseverance of foreign media." Kadyrov reminded him of the Inquisition and Crusades, which is reflected on the cover, about the multinational composition of the Russian Federation and told what, in his opinion, every Chechen was guided by: “This is Islam. We do not start a battle without a proposal of peace, as our Prophet Muhammad did. And we have done this from the beginning of his, probably dozens of times. <...> Moreover, every Muslim knows that the enemy who pronounced Shahad (recognition of Allah by the only god) cannot be finished off or hatred as an enemy to him. And the repentance of the repentance must be forgiven. ”
On the supposedly Turkish cover with Chechen and Pope, it is indicated that this is No. 1604, which was released on December 1, 2022 (supposedly the 47th release from the beginning of the year). Like Charlie Hebdo, Leman is weekly. We are earlier They wrotethat No. 1592 (36), 1593 (37), 1594 (38) and 1595 (39) were released on September 14, 21, 28 and October 5, 2022, respectively. From this it follows that fresh issues go on sale on Wednesdays, and December 1 is Thursday.
We checked the main social networks of the Turkish magazine (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) and did not find a viral cover in them. At the moment, the last magazine posted there is indicated under No. 1603, and it was released on November 30, it has two covers (First And The second) and it is also marked as the 47th issue since the beginning of the year. It turns out that the 1604th number of the weekly journal allegedly was released just a day after the previous one-1603. We revealed the same inconsistency when They wrote About the other fake cover of Leman, only there the authors of the fraud did not forget to change the issue number since the beginning of the year.
This time the earliest publication we found in Telegram appeared December 1 at 10:52 Moscow time in the Canal "Bullet" (104,000 views), which was mentioned in our analysis at least five times. At least three fake Charlie Hebdo covers were laid there (here, here And here), as well as caricatures from the Spanish magazine El Jueves and German Titanic. This issue of Leman under the number 1604 (48) should be released only on December 7 along with the fresh Charlie Hebdo.
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Photo on the cover: Collage "Checked" / social networks
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