A few days ago, a photo of the next 3D-rusun, ridicurating the Ukrainian president, diverged over the network. We checked whether such graffiti really appeared on one of the streets of the capital of Belgium.
Starting February 6, 2023, 3D graphfi photo, supposedly drawn on the streets of Brussels by Polish artists, began to spread on the Internet. According to online publications, Vladimir Zelensky, devouring several tanks, is depicted on the street art. “The new graffiti is called the“ Last Dinner of the Black Hole ”. There are also such signatures - "The last dinner before the execution. Enjoy appetite, Mr. S. S." - It is said In some posts.
A photograph of street art posted Telegram channels of TV presenters Vladimir Solovyov (256,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) and Ruslan Ostashko (125,000), as well as "Russia now"(332 000),"Bullet"(174 000),"Peacemaker"(127 000),"Uncle Glory"(107 000),"Cartridge"(89,000),"What happened?"(89 000), Putin TG Team (77 000), "The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation"(63,000),"Denacification UA"(27,000, and this is the second post, and the first was Remote), "Before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation"(13,000) and"Public news service"(10,000). In addition, graffiti was told on Twitter (examples here, here And here), "VKontakte" (here, here And here) and on Some web sites.
The primary source of the viral photograph of graffiti-Instagram*-scount @typicaloptical, whose authors call themselves "the still unknown art group from Poland." However, regular readers should be well acquainted with this name, since we already wrote about six 3D ricons from Typical Optical, allegedly applied to the sidewalks of different cities in Europe and the USA: they already showed Zelensky in the images Acne, Feckali, Loads And A couple of times in the form Black hole, devouring money. But in fact, it turned out that all the pictures were edited in graphic editors, and those graffiti never appeared on real streets. At the same time, sometimes Typical Optical in geotags and signatures indicated the wrong cities of Europe that actually fell into the pictures.
But suddenly, this time, the authors of Typical Optical really gathered forces and painted a portrait of Zelensky, sucking tanks in the Belgian capital?
Photos of Brussels graffiti appeared in recently created Telegram-canale Typical Optical, as well as in their Instagram in the form Nine separate publications and a whole photograph in Storiz on February 5, 2023. Everywhere there was the same signature: "The last dinner of the black hole." At the same time, we could not find the phrases “Last dinner before execution” and “pleasant appetite, Mr. S. S.”, which are mentioned in many publications, we could not either Instagram, or in the authors' telegram, or in the comments of users.
According to hashtags and geothel, the picture was taken in the capital of Belgium. However, on Two segments Photos posted on Instagram, you can see the car numbers that do not correspond Belgian. In addition, a sign of Jeff de Bruges is visible across the road - this is a confectionery store belonging Franco-Belgian Company. According to the official site, in Brussels (as in all of Belgium) there are no such stores.
Earlier artists from Typical Optical issued Zurich for Berlin and London, that is, intentionally indicated the wrong cities and countries, as well as in mid -November allegedly They painted graffiti in a suburb of Paris, where enough many JEFF de Bruges stores. Therefore, we suggested that the new picture could also be taken not in Belgium, but in another country - for example, again in France. The sign with the word Visions helped us finally set the exact place, visible In the background of viral photography. Since the picture of Parisian graffiti was actually Made In the city of Saint-Manda near Paris, we found the address of the store Jeff de Bruges and hairdresser Visions In Saint-Manda, who were very close. Thanks to the Google Street View function, we found the right place - this is a small Site In front of the branch of LCL Bank (its blue door is visible in the photo right behind the artist).
In addition, “verified” compared the places where they allegedly were drawn Parisian And Brussels Graffiti, and they were very close - literally across the road. Comparing clothes and other details in two photos, we admit that both pictures could be taken on the same day. A similar situation was observed with two photos from Zurich: then there were also grounds assumethat the pictures were taken at about the same time.
Like previous cases, in social networks to find any photo of Graffiti Zelensky with tanks “tested” did not succeed. At the request of our editorial office, a project journalist Les Observateurs The France 24 television channel interviewed the employees of three organizations located near the place of the alleged placement of the new graffiti. Our French colleague called the bank branch LCLLocated next to the Salaries Sun Prestige And a restaurant Le Paris Café, located across the road, and all his interlocutors said that recently they had not seen any street arts in that place. According to the journalist, some people reacted to calls in bewilderment and did not really understand what was discussed, so he sent them a photograph of the drawing to make sure that they had never seen him there.
The earliest mention of Brussels Graffiti, in addition to the social networks of Typical Optical, we found in the Telegram channel VoblyaWhere a post with a photo (161,000 views) was published on February 6 at 12:47 pm Moscow time. This channel More than once I came across on distribution disinformationincluding there and a couple others false 3D graphfi with Zelensky.
In general, the narrative that Zelensky and Ukraine is a black hole in which the western finances disappear is supported by fake messages since October 2022. Then on the network appeared The mounted video is supposedly with the mistake of the American television channel, which accidentally showed the speech of Zelensky instead of the sounds of a black hole. After that I went A series Similar fakes.
At the time of publication of this text, all posts that are not related to the Brussels graffiti are deleted on Typical Optical Instagram. Previously, 27 fragments of other photos were published there, and they were all marked Moderators of the social network as “false information”.
*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: @typicaloptical
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