Is the Venezuelan video truthful, who captured the supermarket in Colorado?

In September 2024, a video about migrants from Latin America appeared on social networks, which sweep goods from the store’s shelves in the United States. We checked the reliability of such posts.

September 11, publicist Alexander Nevzorov Published In their Telegram channel, a video with the English-language subtate "Venezuelans captured a store in Colorado." Nevzorov linked a video with Venezuelan gangs who were operating in the city of Avrora, which “consist of illegal immigrants” and “are engaged in banditry, smuggling, drug distribution, etc.”. “The authorities assure that everything is under control, but not always and not everywhere. Biden a year ago could not answer the question of how many illegal immigrants are in America. But Trump counted 11 million people. He promises to evict them all, ”the publicist added. At the time of writing this parsing, his post collected 572,000 views.

Two videos are attached to the publication of Nevzorov: one was shot in a supermarket, and the other is a cut of three other videos. The first episode of the second video shows a group of armed people at the entrance of a residential building (it is claimed that it is “Venezuelan-illegalists take control of the residential complex, they drove the residents and settled themselves”). In the second fragment, a landfill between the houses is shown, in the third - littered parking. In the upper left corner, it is indicated that the action of all three episodes also occurs in Aurora, Colorado.

At least part of this cut was really removed in this city and parted on social networks back in August. At the same time, how Writes The fact of the Snopes project, which studied the video with armed people in the entrance, is still not clear who they are and what they did there. Local police She saidthat this entry is distributed with incorrect comments - no armed gangs captured the residential complex and did not force residents to pay them money, as some commentators claimed. Residents also told Denver7 to journalists who are afraid to leave the house: "We are accused of all of the fact that we are in the gangs, but this is an absolute lie."

At the end of August, city administration Confirmed On the social network X, that the “small” number of representatives of the Tren de Aragua group is operating in Aurora, but emphasized that in social networks information about the activities of criminals is often distorted. To fight Tren de Aragua in the city in late August It was created Special police unit. In early September, city authorities Reportedthat three alleged members of the gang were detained for shooting 3 km from the building where the video was shot. Two more likely participants in the same incident were arrested in July, they are detained.

Although the video from the supermarket is accompanied by the same geotag, it was not shot in Colorado. How found out Facts from the Lead Stories project, original video (it is approximately twice as long) Published On June 16, the Tiktok user with the username @alessanro.sr, who indicated the Brazilian city of Salvador as a place of filming. In the comments, the blogger specified that this is a supermarket next to the Barra shopping center.

Judging by Google Maps, in the neighboring building earlier worked Bompreço chain store. Local media in mid -June Reportedthat the supermarket is closing, and the sale of goods attracted a lot of attention to buyers. In addition to the video, which no later than September 1 began to be given out for the shot in Colorado, @alessanro.sr on that day Published Another video from the same location. “Bompreço closes, people go crazy,” the signature says.

Thus, we can conclude that the situation in the American city of Aurora is really troubled. However, the Venezuelans published by Nevzorov, who captured the supermarket there, has nothing to do with the United States. In fact, it was shot in Brazil almost three months earlier. The author of the video captured the behavior of buyers on the sale associated with the closure of the store.

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