At the end of March 2023, a video spread in Russian -speaking blogs, which states an unknown substance that deputy of the European Parliament. We decided to check if this is true.
Video with a sniffing man in a suit in the meeting room was published in many social networks: Facebook, Twitter And Telegram. It became especially popular in Telegram, many channels distributed it with the same text: “And in the European Parliament, it turns out to be very boring, it turns out. And if it became bored, you can also have a expensive one. ” Such posts appeared in Telegram channels "Ukraine.ru"(118,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Federation"(65 000),"The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation"(60 000).
The first inaccuracy is the identification of the deputy and the legislative body in which he sits. As the Lithuanian edition discovered DELFI, on the video - a deputy of the German Bundestag from the ultra -right party "Alternative for Germany" (ADG) Jens Mayer. As follows from his official biographies On the Bundestag website, Mayer met in the federal parliament from 2017 to 2021. He was never elected to the European Parliament, and according to the results of the latest elections he did not go to the Bundestag.
Mayer more than once became the hero of the scandalous chronicle, but mainly because of racist He was not seen in drugs, in the use of drugs.
The video itself is genuine, although the version in rather low quality has become viral, which is why not all details can be considered. This is a fragment from a direct broadcast of the Bundestag meeting on June 19, 2020. On that day, deputies discussed the proposal of the parliamentary group of ADG on the ban on activities Antifa. On the record You can seeAs Mayer takes with his right hand an oblong box and pours something out of it on his brush, and then inhales.
If you study the original version of the video, it becomes obvious that the deputy has a box of sniffing tobacco in the hands of the deputy, he is Snus.
Snuffle tobacco is completely legal in Germany and Sold free. And Jens Mayer himself in interview MDR radio stations in 2017 admitted that its main weakness is fried potatoes and sniffing tobacco.
Thus, the video dispersed on social networks is genuine, but Russian bloggers vaguely interpreted it. The video is not a deputy of the European Parliament, but a deputy of the Bundestag, moreover friendly The Russian authorities of the Alternative for Germany. He is not cocaine, as you can assume from the context (“if it became bored, you can also have a expensive”), but tobacco. Finally, this video is almost three years old, and then it has not caused any scandal.
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