A photograph of a woman who holds a cigarette and urinates directly to the ground diverged in social networks. Some posts say that this is the mayor of Barcelona Ada Kolau. We decided to check the veracity of such signatures.
Photo Distracted On Russian and foreign social networks a few years ago. So, in 2017, many They wrote that the mayor of Barcelona Ada Kolau "He conducts a direct action as a left activist (urinates on asphalt)." About this Reported And some Media. The officials recall this "fact" and users Telegram.
Ada Kolau She was elected mayor of Barcelona in 2015. Its numerous pictures are freely available, and if you compare the photo, for example, from its own account of the Spanish politician in Instagram With a distributed image, it becomes obvious that this is a completely different person.
Search by image in Google issued links to articles in several Spanish media (for example, in El Pais And La Provincia) dated 2015. It indicates that in the photo - Aguad Banion, Fem activist, shortly after the election of Kolau, appointed by the new head of the communications department of the Barcelona City Hall. Banion, as they say, everything in the same articles of Spanish publications, is an artist and activist working in the genre postporn (Supporters of this direction are trying to rethink pornography from the point of view of feminism). According to the media, in 2002-2007, she was one of the promoters of the Girls Who Like Porno project - a team that criticized traditional porn industry using video publication, conducting seminars and performances.
Our colleagues-factory from AFP Contacted From the Banion - she confirmed that she was really in the photo and that the picture was not subjected to editing. At the same time, she clarified that the photograph was taken at the Sonar festival in 2004, long before the girl took the position of spokesman at the Barcelona City Hall. “This image was torn from context and has been repeatedly used since 2015 to discredit my public image and image of the mayor of Ada Kolau, since she won the elections and appointed me the director of public relations Barcelona,” the Banion summed up.
Some users in the Russian -language segment of the Internet Published Viral photo, right indicatingwho is depicted on it, but distorting the meaning of the picture. The signature popular in such cases reads: "The press secretary of the mayor of Barcelona Ada Kolau was pierced in the city square to expel terrorism from Catalonia." At the same time, there is nothing to do with the fight against terrorism, Banion itself calls it a work of art, and it was done, according to the official, not in Barcelona, but in Mursia. Indeed, in this city on Google cards You can see a very similar place at Gran Va del Escultor Francisco Salzillo, 16.
Thus, in the photo is the press secretary of the City Hall of Barcelona Aguad Banion, and not the mayor of Ada Kolau herself. At the same time, the picture was taken long before Banion took its position. The signatures that it is aimed at combating terrorism is also not true - it was part of the performance as part of the festival. And besides, the photo is not at all the main square of Barcelona, as many users wrote, but one of the streets of the city of Mursia, located almost 600 km from Barcelona.
Photo on the cover: screenshot of post in "VKontakte"
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