Is it true that the Brandenburg gate on the night of May 8 projected the banner of victory?

On May 8, 2024, the media and Telegram channels reported that the highlighting of one of the main Berlin attractions was hacked and the Banner of Victory was projected to the construction. We checked whether this news is true.

As reported, on the night of May 8, unknown hacked the system of illumination of the Brandenburg Gate and projected the image of the Soviet banner raised over the Reichstag in 1945. The German police allegedly began the investigation of the incident. The news was accompanied by illustrative materials - photographs and videos, in which an unusual projection was visible from different angles.

Personnel distributed "Arguments and facts", TV channels"Tsargrad" And "360","Military Review" Newsland, GTRK "Yugoria","Lead Sevastopol"And other Russian media. The news has gained great popularity into Telegram, where it shared, for example, channels "Live broadcast"(680,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Pozdnyakov 3.0"(323 000), KB (243,000), Nexta Live (238,000) and "Ekaterina Mizulina"(228 000). This information went far beyond the Russian -speaking Internet - for example, the post of pro -Russian blogger Trollstoy in English in the social network X Sicked About 1.9 million views.

Every year on May 8 and 9, commemorative events are held in Berlin, dedicated to the anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. As a year earlier, in the territory of the memorials in the Parks of Treptov, Tyrgarten and Schyunholzer-Hide and in the immediate vicinity of them the police Forbidden Demonstrate Russian flags, St. George ribbons, military uniforms, orders, as well as symbols glorifying Russia's invasion of Ukraine. An exception is provided only for veterans of World War II, diplomats and other officials. The restrictions do not apply to other city objects, where the usual norms of the Assembly Law apply. The Brandenburg gates do not belong to this category (to the nearest memorial in Turgarten about 350 m). The tradition of highlighting the attraction in the colors of the national flag as a sign of the support of the people of a country exists, they usually do it on sad reasons. This happened after terrorist attacks in Paris, London, Jerusalem, Istanbul or Brussels, as well as in February 2022 after the start of a full -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. But in 2017, when the Berlin authorities went around their attention is the attack in the metro station of St. Petersburg and did not illuminate the Brandenburg gates in the colors of the Russian flag, this is for them Made Members of the ultra -right party NPD.

“Verified” studied the sites of authoritative German media and did not find any evidence of the news about which the Russian media wrote. There are not one different from viral photographs or videos made on the night of May 8 in social networks. This is quite unusual, because the Brandenburg gates are in the very center of Berlin, both citizens and tourists regularly visit this place.

The first thing that catches the eye on viral pictures is on the same column of the Brandenburg gate in different photos the projected letters are located differently, with a shift. At the same time, there are no signs of the projector's fluctuations in the video.

Doubts are also caused by the projection of the flag on the collar. It is extremely difficult to obtain such an image on parallel surface with a surface using a projector located several tens of meters. Typically, the inside of the arch of illuminated Brandenburg gates does not change color so Bright.

There are inconsistencies in other details. So, on one of the video in the background, police cars with red-blue flashes are visible, but on the cars of the Berlin police installed, usually, blue.

The territory behind the Brandenburg gate (in the background of photos and videos spreading on the network) on the night of May 8 looked different: two days earlier the street on June 17 blocked almost three months. At this place, they began to build a fan zone for the European Football Championship, which will be held in Germany this year.

Apparently, the image of the Banner of Victory, allegedly designed for the Brandenburg gate, was added to the video and photos shot in advance using programs for editing.

The press service of the Berlin police in response to the “verified” request reported: “Based on all the data available to the Berlin police, [we can say that] video and photographs of the alleged projection on the Brandenburg gates-optical / graphic fake circulating on social networks.”

Similar statements have publicly made some Russian propaganda resources. So, related to RT and a video agency located in Berlin Ruptly I posted a post in Telegram, which says: “It is too good to be true: a video diverges on the network on which the victory banner appeared on the Brandenburg gate. But we know for sure that this video is a fake. To our great regret. "

According to the TGSTAT service, two of the three viral videos and two of the three pictures were the first time published May 8 at 10:39 pm Moscow time in the Telegram channel "Pozdnyakov 3.0". This channel repeatedly was Noticed In the spread of inaccurate information, and it is led by Vladislav Pozdnyakov, the creator of the Male State movement, which promoted the inequality on the sexual basis, organizing the injuries of people and organizations and extremist announced in Russia.

It is noteworthy that exactly the year before, on the morning of May 8, 2023, a similar Fake - About the Banner of Victory, supposedly hanging unknown over the Reichstag building. A week before the story about the Brandenburg gate, that video has found A new wave Popularity-Internet users began to argue that in fact it was shot in 2024.

Photo on the cover: social networks

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