In early July 2024, Telegram channels reported that the unknown people, breaking the window, were thrown into one of the mosques of the German capital, a pork head wrapped in the flag of Palestine with the inscription "Ukraine supports Israel." We checked whether such publications are true.
The first posts about the desecration of the Muslim temple in Berlin appeared in Russian-speaking Telegram channels on July 4, 2024. According to the TGSTAT service, within two days they scored 2.7 million views in total. As reported in the publications, on the morning of July 4, the ministers of the Ahmady Mosque (many bloggers used the German-speaking name Berliner Moschee) allegedly discovered a pork head lying on the floor, abandoned through a broken window and wrapped in a Palestinian flag, on which it was written “Ukraine supports Israel”. “Ukrainians threw their pork head into the oldest mosque of Germany,” the headlines of many posts read. The publications attached photographs from several angles, and the text itself gave statistics on the acts of vandalism in European mosques and spoke of the “aggressive” behavior of Ukrainians in relation to the inhabitants of the EU. Similar records appeared in the channels "Sanya in Florida"(440,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Newsach / Dv"(193 000),"Observer"(187 000),"Putin in Telegram"(180,000) and others. They also wrote about the incident Media, Bloggers, users "Zena","VKontakte" And Facebook.
In viral posts, a set of four pictures is fully or partially used: the appearance of the mosque, its interior and two different photos of the pork head wrapped in the Palestinian flag with the inscription "UKRaine Steht für Israel". On the first of the four pictures really captured Ahmady Mosque (aka Berlin Mosque, or Vilmersdorf Mosque) in the southwest of Berlin, and on the second-its interior decoration (the same carpet pattern is visible in broadcastsavailable on the YouTube channel of the temple). At least, a very similar coating is visible in photographs with a pork head, but there are no other details confirming that the personnel were made in the Ahmady Mosque on the images.
"Verified" studied Berlin police sitewhere reports about incidents are published daily, including cases vandalism And desecration religious objects. IN Archive For July, there are no references to the incident with the pork head that allegedly occurred in the Ahmady Mosque. Moreover, how They say The factor of the DPA news agency, the police did not hear anything about the alleged incident before the moment she received a request for a comment. “Based on the information available to the Berlin police, the messages you are interested in are false,” the representative of the department on July 9, five days after the act of vandalism, about which Telegram channels wrote, answered at the DPA request. Imam of the Mosque Amir Aziz in a conversation with factor confirmedthat there was no such incident in the temple. Similar comments received Correctiv, T-Online And ZDF.
German journalists note that the phrase “UKRaine Steht für Israel”, which is written on the flag of Palestine with viral photographs, was formulated strangely-as if someone literally translated the phrase of the Ukraine Stands for Israel (“Ukraine supports Israel”). Such turns in German exist, but are slightly different. So, the Chancellor of Germany Olaf Sholts in his speech shortly after the beginning of a full -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine He said: “WIR STEEHEN Ein Für den Frieden in Europa (“We support the world in Europe”).
Telegram channels, who told about the porking head wrapped in the Palestinian flag, referred to the publication of Berliner-Wochenzeitung. On his site is a note on the desecration of the Berlin mosque appeared July 4, it almost literally coincides with the content of viral posts. “Verified” could not find a single other German media that reported an attack on the Muslim temple in the capital of the country.
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At the time of writing this analysis, the Berliner-Wochenzeitung website Not updated Already a week and a half - the latest news appeared there on July 5. At the same time, according to the Who.is service, the Berliner-wochenzeitung.de domain was registered June 18, 2024, that is, about two weeks before the publication of the pork head. IN The first day There was not a single news there, and on the main page only a post-step was displayed with the heading “Hello, World!”.
This is far from the first case of the spread of fake news through fake news sites, which are often created exclusively for the purpose of disinformation. Previously "verified" Disassembled A similar fake published by the fake French publication Vérité Cachée - the publication stated that the first lady of Ukraine Elena Zelenskaya allegedly bought a car in Paris for € 4.5 million. Other examples of such sites that are masked for news editions for the spread of misinformation, is Flagstaff Postwho wrote about Donald Trump's wiretap, London Crierwho claimed that Vladimir Zelensky bought a mansion from King Charles III, and DC Weekly, according to which the President of Ukraine spent the funds that America issued the country as financial assistance to buy two yachts. As “verified” found out, all these statements turned out to be false.
In May 2024, the Newsguard project published results investigationswhich revealed the connection between 167 similar news sites, including DC Weekly, and the former American military John Dugan, which was previously mentioned in Russia, moved to Russia parsing "Checked."
Thus, the news of the pork head, which the Ukrainians allegedly threw into the Berlin mosque Ahmady, Fake. He first appeared on a fake site, mimiking under the German media. Information on the desecration of the temple was refuted by the Berlin police and the imam of the mosque.
Photo on the cover: Site Berliner-Wochenzeitung
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