In mid -September 2023, pictures of two murals spread on social networks, in which the president of Ukraine eats parts of the body of the APU soldier - as claimed, an unknown artist painted at home in Paris and Berlin, and now the police are looking for him. We decided to check if this is so.
The first posts in Telegram about the graffiti allegedly painted in Berlin appeared on September 13. These records were illustrated by three photos. At the first - Mural himself: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, eating a torn hand in military uniform with the symbols of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and the inscription "Cannibal" in German. On the second and third - screenshots of publications in the publications Deutsche Welle and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. These articles said that the German police are allegedly alarmed and looking for an unknown attacker. Photos with this graffiti were published by many popular Telegram channels, including "Mriya"(164,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) and"Sheikh Tamir"(121 000). September 16, history was continued. A photo of the second mural appeared in social networks - as stated, created in Paris. Only this time Zelensky was depicted not eating a hand, but a leg. As in the previous case, the photo was accompanied by a screenshot of publication in the media: this time in French Le Point, which also said that the police are looking for the author of graffiti. About this in Telegram wrote, in particular, the same "Sheikh Tamir"(126 000), as well as TV presenter Ruslan Ostashko (116 000).
Berlin graffiti
In all Telegram channels who wrote about graffiti that appeared on the wall of the house in Berlin, the German media were mentioned-Deutsche Welle and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. These publications allegedly reported that the author was intensively looking for the author of the anti -Ukrainian graffiti.
However, none of these publications published similar materials: Search on the site Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung I did not give a result. The stryis screenshot on the Instagram account Deutsche Welle is also attached to the viral posts-although such publications are available only 24 hours, a link to the screenshot is visible DW site, and there (as well as in others social networks This media) There are no notes about the “scandalous graffiti”. In addition, errors in the short text in the screenshot allegedly from FAZ are striking: Zelensky in it is called Vladimir Zelensky (and just the name of the Ukrainian president was written at all below Zelinsky). But in the German media, including Frankfurter AllGemeine Zeitung, Another spelling has been acceptedbased on transliteration from the Ukrainian rather than Russian language: Wolodymyr Selenskyj.
The fact that the German media did not report the search for an unknown artist by the police is not surprising if we take into account that the house depicted in the photo has nothing to do with either Berlin or Germany as a whole. LEAD Stories factor project Found This house is in Poland. The image in a viral photo coincides with the picture of house number 4 on Ignatius Pototsky Street in Warsaw.
Many noticeable details coincide: a green balcony on the left, street lighting lanterns, and the entrance to the entrance. At the same time, the authors of the fake worked hard to remove the signs with the name of the street and the number of the house, as well as replace the Polish flag with German. In Polish social networks, it was also not possible to find any mentions of this graffiti, which allows us to conclude that it did not exist-otherwise it is not clear why it was to pass it off for Berlin (especially considering that unreliable messages about such drawings in Warsaw have already Published in pro-Russian telegram channels).
The earliest publication with this photograph, which managed to find “verified”-a post in the Telegram channel "DPR 🅉 info 🇷🇺", Which appeared on September 13 at 12:21 pm Moscow time.
Parisian graffiti
The posts in Telegram about Paris Graffiti are built according to the same scheme as in the previous case: a photograph of the house with Mural and the screenshot of the article in the media on this subject.
There are no obvious spelling errors in a small text, allegedly published on the Le Point website, but below it is indicated that this is a message from a “special correspondent in Paris, Jean-Noel Lessar”. Firstly, it is unclear why the publication, whose editorship Located In Paris, a special correspondent in the French capital. Secondly, it was not possible to find a journalist with such a name-neither in Le Point, nor in other French media. Finally, Search for publications I also did not give any result on the publication’s website: I did not issue reports about graffiti with a portrait of Zelensky Le Point. There are no references to the drawing in French social networks.
Unlike the previous graffiti, the house depicted in the photo is really located in the city that is indicated in the publications. "Checked" Identifiedthat this is Montreyu, the eastern suburb of Paris, and the house is located on the corner of Marso and Robespierre streets.
This area has been mentioned more than once in the analysis of “verified”. In November 2022, it was there, at the Saint-Mandé metro station (this is a few minutes walk from the corner of the streets of Marso and Robespierre), a photograph was taken, which was then added with the help of a photo editor fake graffiti with Zelensky, devouring money. Another frame was also made there, which became the basis for the fake about "Brussels" graffiti with Zelensky and Western military equipment. Apparently, a similar approach was used this time.
The earliest publication with the “Parisian” mural, which was found, is a post in the Telegram channel ”Ostashko", Posted on September 16 at 14:12 Moscow time.
Thus, both graffiti - both “Berlin” and Parisian - fake. In addition, the screenshots of the publication of the European media, which were supposed to give more weight to photographs, turned out to be fake.
Photo on the cover: social networks
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