In August 2024, the Russian media spread the news about the scandal, which allegedly unfolds around the German Foreign Minister. Numerous notes say that Berkok during the working trips regularly turned for intimate services to Gillo from Nigeria. We decided to check if these publications are true.
On August 1, the Russian media appeared about the sex scandal with the participation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany Annalenna Berbok. It was argued that the head of German diplomacy during her trips to Africa paid for sex to a man named Kingsley. About this with reference to German and Nigerian publications reported, in particular, Lenta.ru, "Arguments and facts","Tsargrad","Lead fm","Moscow Komsomolets","Gazeta.ru"And the television channel 360.
In their publications, Russian media referred to two sources: Nigerian edition Daily Post And German ZeitgesChenen. In fact, the second article that appeared on July 31 is a retelling of the first, published a day earlier.
The Daily Post is an interview with a certain Kingsley, professional gigolo. He said that he has been working in the field of escort services for five years. When asked about the most famous clients, Kingsley spoke in detail about the European Minister named Annalen. According to him, for the first time they met in December 2022 and spent the night together. Six months later, Kingsley claimed, the woman asked to accompany her in Praetory (South Africa). The last time they met in July 2024 in Abidjan (cat-d'Ivoire), and Annalena allegedly told him about a visit to Senegal. For each meeting, a woman, according to Kingsley, paid from € 2500 to € 3000. A six -minute video version of an interview on YouTube is attached to the publication.
The temporary intervals, which he met with a certain European Minister, coincides with the dates of the visits of Berbok to the African countries. In December 2022, she visited Nigeria, in June 2023 - South Africa, in July 2024 - Cat-d'Ivoire and Senegal.
The video attached to the publication on YouTube is the earliest mention of this story, which managed to find “verified”. It was posted on July 29 on the channel @Adeya_videoWhich at the time of writing this analysis was gained only seven subscribers. This interview is the only video posted by a blogger on the platform, and the channel itself has existed since the end of June. The video scored about 14,000 views. It was not possible to detect any images of a man with a video in earlier sources.
The Nigerian edition of the Daily Post really exists, it works Since 2011. At the same time, the publication with the revelations of escort services that Berobok allegedly used is not the result of a journalistic investigation, but a publication posted on advertising (as evidenced by the sponsored disclaim near the heading). It is not known who ordered the publication of this interview, the Daily Post did not answer numerous requests Large German media about commentary.
But the second site, which almost all of the mentioned Russian media, ZeitgesChenen.de referred to, looks much more suspicious. According to the Who.is service, he was registered July 24, 2024 (that is, a week before the publication of news about Berbok). Moreover, the oldest article on it dates from July 26, and The freshest At the time of publication of this analysis - August 1.
None of the publications posted on the website has been signed, and the section “About us” with a description of the publication, the list of editorial staff and their contacts is not there. The name almost completely coincides with the fact that it is not the most popular German site - the news aggregator. Only a real site is called Zeitgeschehen (in the literal translation “Today's (Fresh) News”), and the portal that served as a source for the Russian media, - ZeitgesChenen ("Yesterday's (past) news"). ZDF And Berliner Morgenpost They pay attention to the fact that in the publications on the portal that told about non -working meetings of Berbok in African countries, grammatical mistakes are found, and the German language as a whole is “uneven”.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany in the commentary for T-ONLINE Name The publications that the head of the department during visits to Nigeria, South Africa, cat-d’Ivoire and Senegal used the services of sex workers, "false, fictitious and completely absurd."
Such videos in YouTube are not the first time to become the original sources of fake news. As a rule, a person whose person is impossible to reliably establish, tells the camera spicy details about the lives of famous people, then the video appears on little -known foreign sites, after which the Russian media publish news with reference to the source with a “serious” name.
For example, this method was used to spread a fake about the first lady of Ukraine Elena Zelenskaya, who during a visit to New York in 2023 allegedly spent more than $ 1 million on jewelry. "Checked" in detail Disassembled This story: the primary source was the Nigerian magazine The Nation. The publication, in turn, referred to an eyewitness certificate and brought a link to the video on YouTube. As in some other similar cases, the video on the YouTube channel was the only one. In addition, the publication on the Nigerian website The Nation, as in this case with the Daily Post, was paid for by an unknown customer. Subsequently, authors of misinforming messages steel specially create For their distribution sites, Mimicating For news editions, and in this case, obviously, combined two methods.
Thus, the story of the appeal of Berbok for escort services has all the signs of falsification. First of all, this is evidenced by the features of resources that were the first to publish the news, and the similarity of its distribution with similar fakes, in particular about Elena Zelenskaya.
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