In March 2023, a caricature that allegedly appeared on the cover of the French edition of Franc-Tireur was encouraged on the Internet. According to the media and social networks, in the drawing, the Ukrainian president sits on the mountain of corpses of military personnel. We checked whether the magazine released this cover.
The reports that the “French newspaper was strictly walked” along Vladimir Zelensky began to appear on March 22, 2023. According to numerous publications, on the cover of the 71st release of Franc-Tireur, a caricature of Zelensky sitting on a heap of corpses of Ukrainian soldiers was placed. At the same time, the politician holds binoculars in his hands, in the lenses of which the flags of the Russian Federation and China are reflected. In some publications, the meaning of the drawing Explain So: the President of Ukraine is more preoccupied with the Union of Russia and China than the losses of his army. There is also an inscription to the right of the caricature, which in most posts Translated So: “The king is the wrong mountain. What to expect from the Union of Moscow and Beijing? " According to Telegram channel "Tsargrad TV"(26,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), the cover says:" The king of the Moorish Mountain. "
On the allegedly published cover of the French edition, sites wrote "Moscow Region today","The arguments of the week","Mriya" News-kiev.ruas well as the Kherson editors "Constantinople", Where they noted:" The material that adorns the caricature says about the military crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the internal situation in the Ukrainian state. " In addition, the cover was shown in Telegram channels Voblya (163,000 views), "Uncle Glory"(150 000),"Sheikh Tamir"(146 000), Fox News Russia (106,000), "From the scene"(96 000),"Boiling water"(58 000), Tariknezalejko (49,000) and "Nikita Mikhalkov in Telegram"(44,000), on VKontakte (examples here, here And here) and twitter (here, here And here).
Franc-Tireur is founded In 2021, the French political weekly, which Describes oneself as "an intellectual and journalistic tool to combat progressive obscurantism." Fresh issues of the publication Come out On Wednesdays, however, in the lower part of the viral cover with Zelensky is indicated on March 21, 2023 (Tuesday), while the word Mercredi is located nearby, which means “environment” in the French language.
"Verified" studied the official Franc-Tireur accounts in Twitter, Facebook* And Instagram* And did not find there the caricature of interest to us. There is no cover with Zelensky on the mountain of corpses and in Archive On the newspaper’s website (at the time of writing this text, all issues from No. 13 to No. 72 are available there, and the rest can be found on social networks or third -party bases French periodic press). Moreover, on all Franc-Tireur resources, another cover of the 71st issue for March 22 has been published, announced The day before. It depicts a French television and radio host Cyril Hanun, and the inscription nearby says: “He is sick. Conspiracy theories and trivialization of extremes ... The danger of the Canaun. ” The main article of the room Represents a kind of dossier on this presenter. It is noteworthy that in November 2022 the authors of Russian telegram channels Accepted For the Zelensky khan, depicted on a caricature from the cover of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo.
It is significant that starting from the 71st issue, the publication stopped putting the serial number in the right upper angle of the cover, and moved it to the lower part-the same thing where the date is indicated.
In addition, the font that says the number 71 differs from what was used by the publication on all covers.
Caricature with Zelensky is signed in the name Keanusha Ramezani -Iranian artist, since 2009 living in France and collaborating with Franc-Tireu. “Verified” found Twitter Ramezan - as it turned out, he had already seen the cover with Zelensky in one of the posts and in the remarks wrote: “You put my signature on the sloppy drawing! This is outrageous! I sent a complaint about this tweet. I am not the author of this nonsense. " We asked the artist whether the fake was based on any of his works, on which Ramezani answered: “This is a completely different style, and I do not have a single drawing similar to this one. They forged everything and inserted my signature! "
The earliest appearance of a fake, which "verified" was able to track took place March 22 at 13:20 Moscow time in the Telegram channel “Wild” (8000 views), where the day before for the first time laid out The fake cover of the American Newsweek magazine with Zelensky, watching on TV of recent negotiations Russia and China.
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns social networks Facebook and Instagram, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.
Photo on the cover: social networks
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