At the end of July 2023, a video spread on the network, allegedly capturing the escape of illegal migrants from the bus window. We checked whether what is happening correctly on the record.

The 12-second video shows a moving bus, from the window of which people begin to jump out on the go. With the signature “Illegal migrants who decided to deport from Germany, they found a way to stay in it” The video spread in the Russian -speaking segment of Telegram - in particular, channels shared it ”Uncle Glory"(188,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Militarist"(116 000),"Belarusian security officer"(76 000),"Tin of the day"(74 000). According to the TGSTAT service, at least 2 million users of the platform looked at the whole video. He was also published in "VKontakte","Classmates" Instagram And on Rutube.

Reverse search on the frames of the video shows that earlier a video with a similar signature It spread In the English-language segment of Twitter, while some users called the location of the shooting not Germany, but the South African Republic. As our colleagues from Lead Stories, 19 July site Opera News Nigeria He published an article in which he identified this video as shot in South Africa, and migrants were called the Nigerians.

Even earlier versions of the video Discovered In publications in Arabic. In particular, in the post on the Twitter account of the Iraqi news site ABC On July 3, it is said that these personnel were shot in Algeria, and illegal migrants from other countries of North Africa jump through the broken window of the bus. The ABC video is two seconds longer and higher quality, which allows you to discern the registration number of the car in the foreground.

The license plate corresponds Algerian registration system: yellow plate with three groups of numbers. The number 16 on the right denotes the province of Algeria, in the middle in a group of three digits 1 corresponds to a light vehicle, and 15-the year of its first registration, 2015.

In two publications of Arabic -speaking media "Algeria today" And Al Arabiya From July 2, the video is longer for another second, and it is clear that the shooting was initially vertical. And the earliest of the found versions found lasts 16 seconds. And it was Published July 1. Algeria today clarifies that the video spread on social networks, and the incident itself occurred on the east-west highway. Available On Google maps, pictures of this route, together with the details on video and media publications, allow us to say that the video is really shot in this North African country.

Thus, the original video was shot in Algeria no later than July 1, 2023 and was originally distributed without distortion, but then it was cropped, placed in a false context and, apparently, with the aim of disinformation in this form.

Photo on the cover: Stop frame from the video.