In anticipation of May 9, 2024, messages began to spread in the Russian media and social networks that the France Air Force pilots confused the essay of the colors of their national flag and accidentally depicted the state symbol of Russia in the sky. We checked the reliability of the video given as evidence.
This spring began the baton of fire of the Olympic Games, which in the summer will be held in Paris. April 16 it Light In Olympia, the first stage of the relay has traditionally passed in Greece. April 27 Flame went On board France on board the sailboat "Belem", Which was launched shortly after the first in the modern history of the 1896 Olympics. On May 8, the ship arrived in Marseille, where a solemn ceremony was held in the port. In the evening of the same day in the Telegram channel "Sheikh Tamir”(158,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) was a post with a video, according to which French planes depicted the flag of Russia, not France in the sky. In further publications, it was clarified that they were controlled by pilots from the elite piloting group Patrouille de France.
On May 9, a video with the alleged pools embarrassment with reference to "Tsargrad»Many Russian media said. According to the material on the channel’s website, “the three aircraft (in fact there were eight. - approx.“ Retrieved ”) unexpectedly sprayed the state flag of Russia in the sky above the territory of NATO”. The author of the article made the assumption that the pilots mixed up the outline of blue and white. “Three horizontal stripes - blue, white, red - turned out to be similar to the Russian flag, while on the French flag the same colors are displayed vertically,” explains “explains”Russian newspaper". IN "Arguments and facts"They specified that the leadership of France did not respond to the incident, on the fact of which certain proceedings began. Similar publications about the Russian Tricolor over Marcel released IA "Reginum", Newspapers"Sight" And "Moscow Komsomolets" Lenta.ru, URA.RU, "Vesti.ru","We look" News.ru, "Prime","Reporter", GTRK"Murman","Notebook"And other resources. Moreover, not all publications agreed that the error occurred on May 8 during the ceremony of the Olympic fire meeting, for example, according to the newspaper "Life", The video was recorded on May 9 at the parade in honor of the celebration Day of Europe.
According to TGSTAT, at the time of writing this analysis, the news about the alleged error In total, French pilots gained at least 15 million views in Telegram. The viral video with “confused” flags was published in the channels of TV presenters Vladimir Solovyov (twice: 240,000 And 202 000 views), Irenes Ponaroshka (148 000), Lera Kudryavtseva (121 000), Ruslan Ostashko (107 000), Olesya Loseva (69,000) and Oscars Kuchera (35,000), public figure Ekaterina Mizulina (209,000), media managers Kristina Partic (24,000), as well as Mash (1 million), ""Live broadcast"(769 000),"Sanya in Florida"(528 000),"Pozdnyakov 3.0"(430,000),"Dmitry Nicotin"(357 000),"The ax live"(353,000, the post is deleted),"Zerada"(309 000),"Rhymes and news"(309 000), Fighterbomber (305,000), "The goat screamed"(270 000),"KB"(247,000) and others. Also, the viral video gained millionth views on other platforms:" VKontakte "(examples here, here And here), Tiktok (here, here And here) and social networks X (including French, Arabic And English languages).
The “verified” could not determine the primary source of the 18-second viral video, however, by indirect signs (landscape, number of aircraft, the date of the roller distribution), it can be stated with a high degree of certainty that the record was actually made in the marvel. Journalists of the American Factics Close Project Lead Stories, French online publications TF1 Info and television channel France 24 It is also believed that this video is genuine and that it is made at the event in honor of the arrival of the Olympic fire to France.
According to all photo and video reports from the celebration on official resources Olympiads and publications sets French Media, during the Patrouille de France aircraft with multi -colored smoke depicted Olympic rings and blue-white-red in the sky The flag of France. “Verified” did not find any report about the incorrect sequence of colors in the authoritative international press.
Moreover, the French media and the authorities could hardly hide such an incident that occurred in front of dozens thousands of spectators, especially since the precedent has already been. On July 14, 2018, during the traditional military parade on the day of the capture of the Bastille in the sky over the Paris triumphal arch, embarrassment occurred: instead of the country's three-color flag, nine Patrouille de France aircraft released a red-blue-red smoke fabric. There are many videos and photos taken on that day, they wrote about the case and many Franco -speaking publications. And although some spectators countedthat in this way the pilots symbolically showed the blood spilled by the armed forces of France, representatives of the Air Force admitted that it was a mistake and They apologized For her. “The plane that flew with this red smoke veil instead of blue was a reserve. Since he had to be ready to replace any aircraft, it was loaded with several colors, ” - told After the parade, Lieutenant Colonel Mod Gollye.
As for the video distributed in May 2024, the white-blue-red (as on the flag of the Russian Federation) the smoke curtain appeared there due to the optical effect. For example, at the beginning of the process of smoke release, it is clearly visible how one of the blue stripes blocks the white, that is, the plane “charged” blue, flew closer to the chamber than a plane with white smoke.
In the social network X, among others, the Anglo -speaking pro -Kremlin account shared, among others, Lord Bebo (840,000 views). Soon, under his tweet, an addition from Community Notes appeared - using this tool, the platform users can add an important context that the author missed or deliberately hid from the audience. In the note with reference to video, placed in the official account of the Olympic Games, it was argued that the pilots did not mix the color, and the flag of the Russian Federation was visible only from the angle of shooting. Blogger He called it This is a “unscrupulous lie” showed a comparison of the screenshots of two videos and called on his subscribers to evaluate the note as an unimpertured one (in this case, the dick is removed from tweet - this happened with the original Lord Bebo post).
The fact is that during the ceremony, the aircraft flew over Marseille more than once, and Lord Bebo chose the wrong flight for comparison. Complete Broadcast The parade is published on the official YouTube channel of the Olympic Games. According to the record, at first the pilots painted in the air Olympic rings, and then several times with the help of multi -colored smoke depicted a French flag - only it is important for us last The flight, when the planes were not at the same level, but flew each other in three rows (at the end of this construction pilots Smermed In different directions). It can be seen that with such a configuration, aircraft with white smoke fly higher and a little ahead of the aircraft with blue and red curtains.
Apparently, it was such a construction that led to the fact that from some angles it seemed to the audience that blue smoke sprayed between white and red. We decided to check this assumption by studying other videos. So, Tiktok user under the nickname Marionnrd_ Published Video with a similar angle of shooting-there you can also notice a white-blue-red sequence of colors. At the same time, from the other point at a large distance, the essence is the opposite: white, red, blue, which confirms video clip user Karl Comont.
Thus, French pilots did not make a mistake, because of which a Russian tricolor appeared in the sky over Marseille. In fact, the planes painted the flag of France, but because of the optical illusion and prospects from some angles, it could be similar to the state symbol of the Russian Federation. As reported TF1 Info, May 8 in Marseille, a similar effect was observed when shooting from a very limited number of points. FACHECHERS FROM Lead Stories, in turn, it is assumed that the video was removed from Port Du-Friul on the island of Ratno, approximately 5 km on the water from the port, where the ceremony was held in honor of the arrival of the Olympic fire.
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