In early January 2025, pictures of the meeting of European politicians with the new Syrian government, on which the figure of the German Foreign Ministry was a shutter, was dispersed over the network. The media and Internet users argued that the official Syrian media did this with the filing of new authorities. We decided to check if this is so.
The fact that the German Foreign Minister was smeared in the photo from an official meeting in Damascus, the largest Russian media said: ““Channel One", "RIA Novosti", "Russian newspaper" RBC, Life.ru, "Vedomosti","Kommersant","Komsomolskaya Truth" Lenta.ru and others. Written the popular Telegram channels, for example, "The ax live"(831,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), Nexta Live (262 000) and "Newsach / Dv"(202 000). The authors of some publications indicate that this was done by media employees and social networks, affiliated with the new leaders of Syria, while others - that this was done at all according to the poisoning of the authorities. They discussed edited pictures also in social networks ("VKontakte" X, Facebook) and on Blog-platforms.
On January 3, 2025, German Foreign Minister Annalena Berobok, together with his French counterpart Jean Noel Barro, made an official visit to Damascus. There, politicians met with the new leader of Syria Ahmed al-Sharaa, who came to power after the overthrow of the regime of Bashar al -Assad, and representatives of the Syrian civil society. Before the departure of Berbok notedthat she goes to this meeting with the hope of rebooting Syria’s relations with Germany and the EU, but only if “the new Syrian society provides everyone in Syria, women and men, regardless of the ethnic or religious group to which they belong, a place in the political process if it guarantees them rights and offers them protection.”
As soon as the first frames of the meeting of European politicians with the leader of the Khayyat Tahrir al-Sham group fell into the media, a scandal erupted: journalists and Internet users Turned The attention that Sharaa shook his hand in the greeting of Barro, but in the case of Berbok he limited himself to a welcoming gesture without physical contact. However, a full -fledged handshake of Sharaa of the French politician can also be called only with a stretch: the men barely contacted the fingertips. Berobok later She saidthat they assumed such a development of events, so Barro was also not going to extend his hand for the handshake of the Syrian leader.
The scandal flared up with renewed vigor on January 5, when pictures of meetings of ministers from Sharaa appeared on the Web, on which Berbok (and other women present there) were covered with so that they cannot be recognized. Many Russian media in newsletters referred to a German television channel NTV, which published an article with the heading “Channel close to“ Hayyat Tahrir al-Sham ”, makes Berobok unrecognizable in the photographs.” Judging by the links in the article, we are talking about the Almharar Telegram channel-January 3 at 20:25 Moscow time there really were there Layd Photo where the figure of the German minister is blurred. The description of the account says that this is the official channel of the news network of free Syria. However, “verified” it was not possible to find evidence that the channel is somehow connected with the new Syrian authorities and to some extent presents their official position. In the same name on Facebook, indicatedthat the editors of the news network of free Syria are located in Turkish Istanbul. Journalists of Deutsche Welle specified The Syrian facts from the Verify-Sy project, whether Almharar has any relation to the new Syrian authorities, and received a negative answer.
At the same time, on the same day, January 3, a few hours earlier, the same photos were published in the official accounts of the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the official accounts of X And Facebook. Berobok, like other women, is perfectly visible in the pictures. The same goes for and publications This news c Accounts Syrian Arabic information agency (Sana) - the State Media of Syria.
Thus, Annalen Berbok, in the photo from a meeting in Damascus, was not at all the Syrian authorities, but the editors of a private Telegram channel, which was not directly related to the new leaders of Syria and, apparently, not representing their point of view. The official accounts of the Foreign Ministry of Syria and the State Media published original, non -edited pictures, in which Berbok, like other women, is not a lock.
Photo on the cover: @Almharar / Telegram
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