On June 17, 2024, after the match of the European Football Championship, the network was captured by certificates of provocative behavior of fans of the Romanian national team. We checked the authenticity of these photos and videos.
The match of the group stage of the European Football Championship between the national teams of Ukraine and Romania attracted public attention not only for sports reasons. According to the media, the fans of the Romanian team held two promotions in order to get rivals from themselves-they allegedly hung the flag of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic on the rostrum, and at some point they began to chant the name of the President of Russia. As evidence, a frame from television broadcast and video from social networks, respectively, are given.
Both news, which spread both separately and together, aroused wide interest not only in Russia and Ukraine, but also beyond them - British was written about the screaming The Mirror And Italian Gazzetta Dello Sport. Among the largest Russian media, provocations at the stadium in Munich were told among others TASS, Lenta.ru And "News", Among the popular Telegram channels- Mash (1.1 million views at the time of writing this analysis), "Live broadcast"(710 000), Readovka (491 000), "Before everyone else. Well, almost"(486 000),"Operation Z: Warrixes of Russian Spring"(462 000) and others. In the social network X English -speaking publication About Romanian fans, supposedly chanting Putin, she gained almost 2 million views.
June 17 in Munich took place match The first round of the group stage of the European Football Championship between the national teams of Ukraine and Romania, which ended with the victory of the Balkan team with a score of 3: 0. Before the match is UEFA declaredIn order to avoid provocations, the stewards will be removed by Russian flags from fans planning to visit the game. Previously, there were tricolors Noticed In the stands during the matches of Serbia - England and Germany - Scotland.
Incidents with the flag of the Russian Federation at the first match of the Ukrainian national team at the tournament really managed to avoid. However, during the game on social networks, a frame from a broadcast began to spread, on which behind the side of the side judge you can see black-blue-red flag DPR.
"Verified" did not find reports about the incident on the sites UEFA, Ukrainian associationAnd Football And FederationsAnd Romania football.
According to the behavior of the Romanian football players on the viral frame, it can be assumed that it was made during the celebration of a goal scored. During the direct broadcasts of the European Championship on all channels that acquired the right to show, the same picture is demonstrated. “Verified” studied the records of the match shown in different countries (Russia, Italy, Switzerland and Ukraine), and came to the conclusion that the screenshot was made at the end of the 32nd minute of the match, after the Romania team opened the score.
How easy it is to notice, behind the side judge there is no flag, only bare shields.
Thus, the DPR flag appeared on one of these screenshots as a result of image processing in the photo editor. Shortly after Internet users began to publish the personnel, many media outlets refutation their previous notes, some even brought Readers apologize.
The first (at least in the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet) the photo department was distributed by the pro-Russian Telegram channel "Urgently, now"(49,000 views) June 17 at 17:02 Moscow time, about half an hour after the original frame was shown on television. This channel is repeatedly mentioned V parsing "Retrieved" as a source of misinformation about Ukraine.
As for the video with the chanting of Putin’s surname, in this case “verified” did not find any evidence of the scandal on the official resources of the organizing committee of the championship and football federations of Ukraine and Romania. Facts from the project Les Observateurs The French television channel France 24 contacted UEFA, and there they replied that their representatives did not hear such chants during the game. When similar incident It occurred in July 2022 in the Champions League qualifying match between Dynamo Kiev and Istanbul Fenerbahce, the shouts of Turkish fans were heard by the players and the coach of the Ukrainian team, as a result of which a rather noticeable scandal happened. During a recent game in Munich, the chanting that the media was written about is not heard on any broadcast watched by “verified”, there are no cries in any other amateur video from the stadium. Judging by the videos from social networks, the Romanian fans sang completely other Songs.
The Ukrainian state was responded to the viral video Center strategic communications and information security. Its representatives said that the audio road to the video was mounted and contains fragments of famous among Ukrainian fans Songs Putin - X ** Lo, first executed in 2014 fans Shakhtar and Metalist football clubs.
This statement looks believable. In particular, on a viral video is clearly heard Together “La-la-la-la-la la-la-la”, distinguishing the song of Ukrainian fans. Also, the word “Putin” in the “Romanian” screaming sounds a second time very similar to the first, as if the chabi was copied and used in audio road again. Small differences can be associated with the inter -shum, also present on the video.
At the same time, other refutations began to appear in social networks - in particular, allegedly made at the stadium in Munich RecordOn which the song of Ukrainian fans about Putin sounds. In fact, this video was Filmed In 2021, at the match of the European Championship between the national teams of Ukraine and Austria in Bucharest. The difference between stadiums in the Romanian capital and the largest city of Bavaria is noticeable even by quantity tiers. Individual users argued that it was this audio road that was used to mount Romanian fans in fresh viral video, but “verified” can neither confirm nor refute this fact - some differences between the records are noticeable, but at the same time it may be the result of simple digital processing.
There are other arguments in favor of the fact that we are dealing with installation. So, the surname Putin in Romanian Sounds Not at all SoAs in Russian or Ukrainian. This is due to the features of phonetics and noticeable in the reports of the Romanian media.
Under the videos of the Romanian media and bloggers in YouTube about the alleged incident repeatedly Meet Comments in the Romanian language like "I was in this match, I have not heard such a screamer." Factor from the Italian project Open went further and Finded The fan, who, judging by his activity in social networks (account @andrei_mariuss on Instagram) was present at the match. He also denied information about the chanting of Putin's surname during the match and said that, on the contrary, Romanian fans supported Ukrainian fans (as he writes Bild, as a sign of solidarity, they chanted: “Ukraine, Ukraine!”). Note that after a full -scale Russian invasion in February 2022, Bucharest is entirely supports Kyiv, including Teaches Ukrainian pilots management of F-16 fighters at their bases and transfers the neighboring country of weapons.
On the viral video, you can see the frames shown on the scoreboard at the time of shooting. The Spanish edition published them from a different angle Marca.
As in the case of the flag of the DPR allegedly posted on the rostrum, this record, judging by the scoreboard, was made after the Romania team scored a goal. It is incredible to imagine that Romanian fans massively shouted "Putin!" Instead of celebrating the success of your team.
There is another feature from a viral video. At first, an animation is visible on it with the word “goal!”, Then the face of a Ukrainian football player and, finally, gleeing his Romanian rivals. However, on the video from Marca the order of these events is the opposite.
It should be noted that shown by the Spanish edition of the scorecle on the viral video is on the right, not on the left - the animation on them is slightly different, but the frames from the field are identical.
If, having this information, to reconsider the viral video, then some things will seem strange. So, the fan on the left, shook his fists in front of him, abruptly takes them behind his head, although when performing screamers, it usually happens the other way around: hands are thrown forward from behind the back of the head. Another man in the foreground does not clap his hands, but, on the contrary, abruptly tearing them away from each other. All this suggests that the viral video was obtained from the original by reverse playing personnel.
Thus, this video from the match Ukraine - Romania has all the signs of fake. The first among Russian-language resources was published by the Telegram channel "Shaman Rahu"(3800 views) at 17:08 Moscow time, after only 6 minutes. After the start of the spread of a fake frame with the flag of the DPR. This channel repeatedly mentioned In the analysis of "tested" as the primary source of the spread of misinformation about Ukraine.
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