In early July 2023, a video with animals running along the street spread in the media and blogs. It was claimed that Paris was captured on the video, and the beasts were released from the local zoo by the participants in the riots. We decided to check if this is so.
June 27 in a suburb of Paris Nanter Police Shot 17-year-old Nael Merzuk, who was driving a car. After that, in the French capital, and then in other large cities, large -scale riots began, which were accompanied by clashes with the police. Protesters set fire to cars and shops, built barricades. In this context, the 32-second video with animals, which was allegedly released from the zoo in the capital of France, began to spread. A video with a zebra, lions and an elephant appeared both in the media and blogs. Among Russian publications, in particular, they wrote about this "Moscow Komsomolets","Moscow 24" And "Arguments and facts". Post Telegram channel "Live broadcast»Viewed 784,000 people; In total, only on July 1, according to the TGSTAT service, such publications covered almost 12 million users of the platform. Video and its fragments were also distributed by users YouTube, "VKontakte" And Facebook.
The video that gained the most popular in the Russian -speaking segment of the Internet consists of three episodes. The first part of the video captures Zebra, running along the highway next to cars. For the first time this video appeared in Twitter Long before the protests of 2023, namely on April 11, 2020. The day after his publication, the publication Le Parisien toldthat between the Parisian suburbs of the Schenevier-Sur-Marn and Shampini-Sure-Marn, Zebra and two ponies, escaping from the local circus. Huffington Post subsequently I found outthat the circus was in the neighboring town of Ormeson-Sur-Marn. The owner of the circus told the publication that the animals fled for no more than 15 minutes, and then returned home. Neither zebra nor ponies were injured.
The second part of the distributed roller is, as claims, shots with lions on the streets of Paris. However, this video, as notes the Libération, appeared On the network even earlier than the previous one. In a video loaded on YouTube On February 12, 2020, it is claimed that in Saint-Deni, the northern suburbs of Paris, Lions "walk along the street without any supervision." At the same time, in February 2020, there was no news about the newly exploding lions in the French media, and due to poor quality the video to establish where this is happening, it is not possible. In any case, the video appeared in three and a half years until recent protests.
The third part of the video, the hero of which was the elephant, was not able to identify either to us or our colleagues from the fact of the agency of the agency Reuters.
Other videos were also widespread abroad, allegedly capturing animals, which protesters were released from the French zoos. In addition to lions and zebras, the video also can be visible rhino and wild goats. FACHECHERS FROM Correctiv, Lead Stories And other publications proved that these personnel also have nothing to do with protests in France in the summer of 2023.
The Paris Zoo deny that any animals escaped during protests. The representative of the institution Mathieu decomb said Reutersthat all the videos that are distributed on the Internet have nothing to do with the Paris zoo. According to him, not a single animal escaped from Zoological Parknot from animal With a botanical garden.
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