At the end of May 2024, information about the death of student Samira Khamdavi began to spread in social networks. It was alleged that he was detained during protests and beaten in a police station, after which he allegedly died. We figured out whether this information is true.
On May 30, posts appeared in Telegram channels telling about the death of a student from Algeria. It was reported that he was arrested during the action in support of Palestine, which took place on May 7 before the Institute of Political Studies in Paris. Then, according to bloggers, the young man spent a day at the police and returned from there beaten. Soon he died, however, as reported with reference to the student’s relatives, law enforcement agencies refused to accept an application for violent death. The posts in social networks were accompanied by a video message from brother Hamdavi and a photograph of a small street memorial. The beating and death of the student, in particular, wrote Telegram channels "Observer"(196,000 views at the time of writing of the analysis),"Putin in Telegram"(150,000) and"Mordor's voice"(138 000).
In early May, French police several times I dispersed The missing tent camps on the territory of the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences PO) and next to it. On May 7, after the next overclocking the day before, the demonstrators again occupied Saint-Giim Street next to the university. For the resistance of the police were Arrested Two people, then dozens of protests in the Sorbonne were detained. But the French media did not write about the death of one of the students.
Facts from the program Les Observateurs The France 24 TV channel turned to the Paris prosecutor’s office, where they were replied that a man named Samir Hamdavi was not held accountable and did not detain on May 7. Journalists also contacted students of the Institute of Political Research, including those who participated in protests, and they also could neither recall this name nor to identify a person from the photograph. Finally, Les Observateurs employees asked about the alleged incident of lawyer Louise Lamur, which protects the interests of protesting students, and she replied that she had no information about Hamdavi.
The earliest message about the death of the student is a video in YouTube, in which a person who introduced himself as his brother Samira told the story of his alleged death. The account is already Remote Together with the video, but the screenshot Saved in the archive. On May 31, when the video was archivated, and reports of the death of Hamdavi spread on social networks, at the Justice Pour Samir Hamdaouui channel (“Justice for Samir Hamdavi”) there were 18 subscribers.
In the video, a young man who calls himself the brother of Samira Hamdavi, tells in detail about the detention of a student and his beating in the commissariat of the police of the 7th district of Paris. According to the man, Samir died two days later, and the doctors reported that he had died of heart failure. It was not possible to identify a brother using available person recognition services. Les Observateurs suggests that the video could be created using artificial intelligence.
It was also not possible to determine who is actually depicted in a photograph posted on an impromptu memorial. The picture, however, is really made near From the Institute of Political Research, at the intersection of Grenel and Saint-Giim streets.
But it was not possible to find any other pictures of this memorial on the network, as well as mention of it, which is surprising, given the tense situation in the university quarters of Paris in May.
The spread of the story about the Algerian student began with publication on the Malijet website, where it was Retored Video Brother Hamdavi. This article appeared on May 28, it was on it Reference Prochremple Telegram channels. For the first time, a picture of the memorial appeared in it. However, the author calls the student either samir or Ahmed. May 30, the text was reprinted without changes in the site Media alternatifwho became the source of the spread of news in French social networks.
Malijet is a Malian pro -government publication. It It was mentioned In 2022, in the report of the French Institute of Strategic Research of a Military School as the media, which collaborated with RIA FAN and other media, owned by the founder of the Wagner PMC Evgeny Prigozhin. Media alternatif was registered In Cyprus on May 24, 2024, that is, less than a week before the publication of an article about Samira Hamdavi. Now the site is not available, but in the web archive there are other it publications - For example, Fake About the wife of the President of Ukraine Elena Zelenskaya and Children's Trade.
Thus, the story of the protesting Parisian student who died after the beating by the police does not receive confirmation. This case is not known either in Parisian law enforcement agencies or at the Institute of Political Studies. The video that was the basis of the history of the appeal of the brother of this student is probably created by artificial intelligence, and the photograph of the memorial near the university remained the only one. Finally, pro-Russian sites and pro-Kremlin Telegram channels were engaged in the spread of this news.
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