Is it true that Ukrainian refugees caused forest fires in Spain?

In Russian social networks, a fragment of a report of the Spanish television channel RTVE appeared - according to him, fires in Spain began through the fault of Ukrainian refugees who burned the Russian flag in the forest. We checked if it was true.

Russian Media And Users Socials -networks reported an incident, allegedly occurring through the fault of Ukrainian refugees in Spain. When trying to burn the Russian flag on the camera, Ukrainians seemed to arrange a forest fire. Media Reference RTVE, and users of social networks, in addition, bring to the news report of the Spanish TV channel fragment video report. In the news running line against the background of the scenes of the scorched forest, it is written in Spanish: "The fire began because of the Ukrainian refugees who burned the Russian flag on the camera."

The RTVE run -in line reports that Ukrainian refugees burned the Russian flag and accidentally caused a fire. It is also specified that additional information about the news from the running line can be found on the website RTVE.S. Nevertheless, we were not able to find the mention of the incident with Ukrainian refugees on site TV channel. Also there are no of them in any Spanish -speaking media.

Russian -speaking publications contain additional details of the incident. Publications "Folk News" And "Economics Today" It is reported that the incident occurred near the Spanish village, but do not specify its name. RIA Fan It adds that, according to RTVE, “refugees who arranged a fire are waiting for large fines” and, possibly, criminal liability. All publications claim that as a result of a fire, 31 hectares of forest burned out. But social networks They say about 31,000 hectares of scorched forest, which corresponds to the number indicated in Fragment RTVE video report. According to the inscription on the screen, "catastrophic fires in the municipality of Losasio of the province of Samora destroyed 31,000 hectares."

In numerous RTVE publications about forest fires 2022 marked Several reasons are mainly extremely high temperatures and thunderstorms. None of the articles mentioned human activity or, in particular, a random arson of forest with Ukrainian refugees.

We managed to find complete release RTVE news about fires in Losasio. The video published on social networks shows the TD logo in the lower left corner and synchronous translation into the language of gestures in the right of the lower. In this format it comes out program News Telediario en lengua de signos. Fires in the Losasio of the province of Samora are dedicated release For July 22. Judging by the time mark on the video from social networks, the episode of interest to us was aired at 15:34:06. Nevertheless, in the Telediario release on the RTVE website, at this time there was a plot with another reporter and other gap. The personnel shown in the video from social networks were aired on the same issue, but a few minutes earlier - at about 15:26:43.

Video from social networks (left) and from reporting RTVE (right)

On two videos - from social networks and with RTVE - everything coincides except the text of the running line. Instead of news about Ukrainian refugees, RTVE reports the monkey Ospois virus and the detention of a driver in Madrid. Obviously, the video from social networks was edited: the original running line was replaced by the text about Ukrainian refugees. The earliest edited video that we managed to find, Loaded VKontakte group "New Petersburg". In the description of the group, administrators urge subscribers to share content through the “offer news” function. Perhaps someone sent this fake video as news, and the moderators published it without checking for reliability.

Thus, the text about Ukrainian refugees was imposed on the original video using computer technology. And reports on the burning of the Russian flag, which led to forest fires in Spain, is a fake created by users of social networks.

Image on the cover: RTVE.es

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