In November 2023, the news dispersed on the Internet that the British customs arrested 30 exhibits of the Body Worlds: Kyiv exhibition, which, as it turned out, were made from the bodies of the dead soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. We decided to check whether anything like this happened in reality.
Users of social networks spoke about the scandalous cancellation of the exhibition and the arrest of exhibits ("VKontakte" Tiktok, X), a blog-platform (""Zen" Livejournal) And forums. The news in Telegram scattered widely - they wrote, in particular, channels about it "Mishovets Yegor"(68,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Voenondelo (military affairs)"(60 000),"Palestine | Hamas Exxxclusive"(52,000) and others. In almost identical posts, it is stated that the Ukrainians took their bodies, and then sold the creators of the exhibition on fake documents without the resolution of relatives-it was because of problems with the papers that British customs detained the exhibit. As evidence in many publications, the plot, allegedly shot by reporters of the British newspaper The Telegraph, was used in many publications.
Body Worlds - The series of exhibitions existing since 1995, the exhibits of which are made of real human bodies. The organizers argue that such a concept “sends a visitor to an exciting trip to the skin”, “provides a wide understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the human body”, “shows the long -term effect of diseases and dependencies, such as the use of tobacco or alcohol, and demonstrates the mechanics of artificial knee or hip joints.” The exhibits are made by the method plasticine - embalming and conservation of anatomical drugs through the replacement of water and lipids in biological tissues with synthetic polymers and resins.
The plot of the scandalous abolition of the exhibition, allegedly shot by The Telegraph, is a video duration of a little less than one and a half minutes, which consists of cutting photos and videos associated with Body Worlds, Ukraine, the work of the British customs services, etc. The video used the British publication logo, as well as subtitles with the news of news and legged music. Also, the authors of the video gives him a quote from Gunter von Hagens, the German Anatom, the developer of the plasticization technique and the founder of the Body Worlds exhibitions: “I was misleading that the bodies were obtained by a legal way. It is difficult to imagine that in the civilized world you can sell the bodies of the dead without the knowledge of their families. Without realizing it, I was involved in a fraudulent scheme, and I apologize to the families of military personnel who suffered from it. ”
Not on the site The Telegraphnor in social networks of the publication (YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X) There is no video or at least news about the abolition of the anatomical exhibition Body Worlds: Kyiv and the arrest of exhibits intended for it. “Verified” failed to find such publications in other British media. There are no reports about the incident and on the official sites of the airport Hitro, where allegedly the arrest of exhibits, the police took place London And surroundings And government Great Britain (since we are talking about an international scandal, it is highly likely that such news could appear here). It was not possible to find in any authoritative sources and a quote attributed to von Hagen.
FACECHERS from the publication "ґVAR MedIA" Analyzed The video distributed under the guise of The Telegraph plot and found that it did not contain a single original frame associated with illuminated news. The video consists entirely of photos and fragments of other videos that are freely available. So, for example, shots of exhibits of the exhibition at the 35th second video are taken from video About the plasticization posted on the YouTube channel of the exhibition back in November 2017.
Stares of inspection at British customs are borrowed from videoWhich on October 15, 2023 placed the user of SNL.Dunham in Tiktok. Judging by the information from this video, the inspection of baggage took place at the Gatvik London Airport, and not in Khitrovo, and found illegally imported cigarettes in the suitcases, and not fake documents or exhibits for an anatomical exhibition.
A picture of a customs officer filling certain documents is also freely available and for several years and Used In many thematic articles in different languages.
It was not possible to “verify” to confirm that the exhibition, which is dedicated to the viral video, was generally planned for holding in London. Body Worlds on an ongoing basis passes In five cities of the world: Berlin, Heidelberg and Guben (Germany), Amsterdam (Netherlands) and San Jose (USA). There is no exhibition in London in the schedule of planned temporary exhibitions. The Body Worlds website does not mention at all, the name of which Kyiv would appear - neither planned nor abolished. It was not possible to find the announcements of the exhibition with this name in specialized media and on sites about events in London. All mentions of Body Worlds in connection with the Ukrainian capital, different from the news of the news, are devoted to temporary Expositionwho took place in Kyiv in 2019.
The earliest publication of the message about the scandalous cancellation of the exhibition, which “verified” was found, was released in the Telegram channel “Tasking News»November 9, 2023 at 15:36 Moscow time. The post states that the news is received from the subscriber. This is not the first time that the channel, referring to the information allegedly sent by readers, begins to spread fakes about Ukraine. For example, earlier “verified” the news that a bus with the inscription “in Berlin was already refuted”Zelensky - black hole»I accidentally ended up on a television report on energy crisis or that anti -Ukrainian graffiti with a slogan" appeared in Europe "Glory to Urine".
Thus, there is no evidence that London really arrested exhibits for the Body Worlds exhibition, made from the bodies of the dead Armed Forces of the Armed Forces without permission of their families and brought by fake documents. Moreover, there is not a single confidence evidence that such an exhibition in the British capital was ever planned for holding. The video used as evidence, allegedly released by The Telegraph, is absent on the site and in the social networks of the publication, while the video was created from the materials in the available access. The first about the scandal was the pro-Russian Telegram channel, previously repeatedly seen in the spread of fakes.
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