Is it true that in the video a person who is limping on the wrong leg depicts the victim of the Assad regime?

In December 2024, social networks bypassed a short video, allegedly proving that some Syrians falsified the injuries and impersoned the political prisoners from local prisons. We checked how just such a conclusion is.

In nine -class videos, two men of the Arab appearance are removed from a third taxi with a bandaged foot. One of the accompanying gives him a slap, drawing attention to the fact that he relies on an supposedly sore leg and holds healthy in weight. After that, the lame man changes the supporting leg. “Now you can send it to television channels as evidence of the existence of secret torture in Syria,” concluded some bloggers who shared the roller. Many resources have been parallel between this video and the recent reporting of CNN Clarissa Clarissa Ward about the release of another Syrian prisoner that caused Great doubts In reliability.

Video with a lame man and similar signatures published Telegram channels "Bocharik (yeah, the same)"(299,000),"Tsargrad"(220,000),"Ukraine.ru"(139 000),"The goat screamed"(54,000),"Yuhu Moscow"(42,000) and others.

December 8, 2024 Syrian rebels They took it Damascus, and President Bashar Assad fled from the country under his control. On the same day, his opponents freed a large number of prisoners from prison, who fell there for political reasons throughout the civil war. The stories of these people told Correspondents of many foreign Media.

Wide resonance The plot that was published on December 12, in which the film crew of the American television channel CNN, found in one of the prisons a prisoner hiding under the blanket. The man who called himself Adele Garbale from the city of Homs became the hero of the news reports, but a few days later Salam Mohammad Salam, an officer of the Syrian intelligence services, sadly known for his activities in the same city and fell into conclusion for extortion. This gave many Internet users an occasion to call the video staging. Doubts strengthened the fact that CNN, who had shot the plot, CNN Clarissa Ward was already accused of imitating under fire during the fighting in Israel in 2023, but that charges It turned out to be false.

The quality of the video distributed in the Russian -language segment of social networks is quite low, but the reverse search for one of its frames in Google leads to Records With a more clear image.

The phone number 07702540630 indicated on the taxi window is listed in profile user Instagram with userneum @x_hayder_r. Judging by his publications, this is the same person who, in a viral video, supports a lame man under his left shoulder and gives him a slap.

There is @X_hayder_r on the page and the viral video - it was published on December 8 and received more than 1.5 million likes. At the time of writing, the video was watched more than 63 million times.

Judging by the description of the profile, @X_hayder_r is the owner of a outlet located not in Syria, but in Iraq, in the market of Bab al-Dervaz in the Baghdad district of Kadimiy. This store is on Google Maps, and the phone number on the page corresponds to the format of the local operator Asiacell.

As the restaurant sign prompts Falafel Alhuluwh In the background, the viral video was shot literally a couple of hundred meters from this market.

User @x_hayder_r is a fairly famous blogger on Instagram with 478,000 subscribers. It became popular thanks to the witty video, in which it mainly advertises goods from the assortment of his store. Some of them It appears And the same lame man from the viral video. At the same time, in the original publication there is no indication that the video has anything to do with events in Syria.

December 14, six days after the publication of this video, @x_hayder_r Laid a video with a complaint that its content began to be issued for products Palivuda (So ​​the supporters of the Prozrail's views call staging, in their opinion, photos and videos designed to show the suffering of the Palestinians in the gas sector). The next day in similar The post blogger already mentioned the discussion of the scandalous plot of CNN from Syria. Both times, he confirmed that the videos were shot in the Baghdad district of Kadimi. Thus, a humorous video from Iraq in the publications first foreign, and then Russian bloggers were equipped with false explanations. He was given out for staged personnel at first from Palestines, and then from Syria. When it was in the foreign -language segment of social networks that the video began to be associated with Syria, it was not possible to establish, but in Russian with such an attribution he spread at least from the night to December 14, when it was published by the pro -Russian propaganda channel Breege Time Zözz (about 25,000 views, 1200 reposts), and from the signature to the publication (“victims of the bloody regime of Assad, they return from the casemates after wild torture”) is not clear whether its author is joking or reports serious news.

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Not true

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