Is it true that in Neftekamsk at the funeral of a pedophile from the Wagner PMC, a children's convoy was put up?

In January 2023, a photograph dispersed on social networks, capturing, as stated, the moment of giving honors to the former convicted person for pedophilia. We checked whether this photo is genuine.

The picture depicts a guard of young men in the cemetery of a certain north, judging by the background, the city. The photograph is accompanied by the signature: “In Neftekamsk with honors, they buried the heroically died on his soldier, previously convicted of pedophilia. As a sign of gratitude before the edge, the hero was put an honorary guard of the Unarmeans. ”

The photo with this signature was distributed by some websites (Joyreactor (1, 2), "Rusmonitor","Kasparov.ru"). But she gained particular popularity on social networks -Facebook And Telegram. It is worth highlighting the channel "Truha Ukraine"(1.1 million views), a personal channel of a famous journalist Alexander Nevzorov (620,000), as well as resources "Peter against mobilization"(43,000) and"Real Belarus"(15,000).

How It is known, as part of the private military company Wagner, Russian prisoners are attended in the war against Ukraine, to whom the founder of PMC Evgeny Prigozhin promised A pardon upon returning from the front, if one takes place. As for "Yunarmia", Then this military-patriotic social movement was founded in 2016, and six years later hit On the sanctions list of the European Union, as its members "supported the captive war of Russia against Ukraine and distributed Russian propaganda of war."

However, let's take a look at the dry facts associated with a replicated photograph.

1. Wagner has no official resources. On unofficial site PMCs in the “vacancies” section say that the presence of criminal records for a sexual nature refuses the application. Similar information is given on a specialized page in "VKontakte". About similar restrictions Evgeny Prigozhin also reported.

2. The picture was taken from the official website of the UNARMIA department, not in Neftekamsk (Bashkortostan), but in Turinsk (Sverdlovsk region). On the original photos You can distinguish between the name on one of the grave plates: Prihchin Arkady Dmitrievich. Speech, obviously, about participant Second World War and the cavalier of the Order of the Red Star from the village of Useninovo near Turinsky. Full address Photos say that it was uploaded to the site in February 2018.

3. In the Russian media, nothing about the burial of participants in the Wagner PMC in Turinsk or Neftekamsk has recently been reported.

4. According to our data, a photograph with misleading the signature began to spread in the evening of January 12 (example). Note that in the morning of the same day, large Russian media conveyed news The fact that in Serov, another city of the Sverdlovsk region, a fighter of PMC Sergey Molodtsov was buried with military honors, who was serving the deadline for killing his own mother. It is likely that this real story could serve as a source of inspiration for the authors of “News” about the honorary guard at the grave of the pedophile.

Photo on the cover: social networks

Fake

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