Is it true that the hosts of CNN mockingly sang a Christmas song against the backdrop of the plot about the eviction of Ukrainian refugees?

In early December 2024, social networks bypassed a video clip, allegedly taken from the air of the American television channel. It is claimed, the video shows leaders who laugh at the problems of Ukrainians in France. We checked the authenticity of this video.

In the lasting about 20 sec. The video is replaced by a photo and video of people, some of which are wrapped in yellow-blue flags or stand at the building “Solidarity with Ukraine” on the facade. At the same time, the titer reports: "The French government evicts 10,000 Ukrainian refugees from social housing to the eve of Christmas." Soon after the start of the video, the two presenters begin to humming the Christmas melody, and then laugh loudly.

The video spread in social networks (X, "VKontakte"), On the blog-platforms ("Zen") And especially in Telegram, where it was placed channels"Luke fucks"(252,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Uncle Glory"(167 000), Voblya (126 000), "The first folk"(91 000),"Cat Kostyan"(88 000) and others.

By data The European Statistics Bureau (Eurostat), by the end of October 2024, almost 60,000 refugees from Ukraine received temporary protection in France. She Includes The permission to temporarily stay and for work, providing housing or funds for its rental, financial and medical care, determination of children in school and assistance in adaptation.

“Retrieved” did not find information about the preparatory eviction of 10,000 Ukrainians from social housing neither on site CNN, nor in Accounts American television channel on social networks, nor on its YouTube channelnor in authoritative French sources. Similar news They came In October, from the region of the Grand Este in the north-east of the country, where dozens of families received a notification of the need to leave subsidized housing by the end of the month. Local authorities referred to the fact that refugees made insufficient efforts to integrate into French society. In other words, neither the scale nor the terms in this news coincide with what CNN allegedly reported.

Analysis of the screenshots of the viral video using the person recognition service Pimeyes shows that journalists are Sheila Gray And Bob HerzogWorking not on CNN, but on the Local 12 regional television channel in Cincinnati, Ohio. In the video, Gray says: “Many call Charlie Brown (popular in the USA character comics. - approx. Ed.) And his friends to hold the hands around her and sing ” - and begins to humming the melody. Search by these keywords leads to news 2020 on the installation and decoration of Christmas spruce in Zincinnati. The work that year went slowly, including because of the pandemic of coronavirus, and thus local residents in social networks wanted to create a festive mood. Journalists Local 12 told about this - original reportage There is on the Gray page on Facebook. It does not show Ukrainian refugees - only TV presenters and personnel from the fountains area in Cincinnati, where the Christmas tree was installed.

According to the TGSTAT service, the first edited video was published by the Prochremile Telegram channel "Kostyan Cat - Official Channel"December 3 at 14:58 Moscow time. He repeatedly Facing In the analysis of "tested" as the source of misinformation.

Thus, the leaders of CNN did not sing on the air of the Christmas melody, mocking the Ukrainian refugees in France, awaiting eviction. The video used as evidence was falsified. Its basis was a fragment of the ether of another American television channel about the installation of Christmas Christmas tree in Cincinnati.

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