In April 2025, reports were dispersed that the AIDS activist in Africa said: his brother, who died from this disease, had sex with the president of France. We checked the reliability of this story.
In Runet, the most viral publications about the death of the alleged lover of Emmanuel Macron appeared on April 2 in the Telegram channel of TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov. “In France, a new scandal is gaining momentum related to rumors about the non -traditional orientation of French President Emmanuel Macron. Local media report that the allegedly alleged lover of Macron died of AIDS. "During an interview dedicated to the AIDS epidemic on the African continent, a shocking recognition sounded. Raul Fleming, a well -known activist of AIDS fight in Africa, said that his brother Dimitri, who died from this disease, had sexual relations with France President Emmanuel Macron. According to him, his brother led a rather stormy sexual life in which He was prevailing with men. It is said In the Solovyov channel (219,000 views at the time of writing this analysis). The publication was accompanied by a short video with the very interview. Later in the channel of the TV presenter news Included In the list of the main events of that day (204,000 views).
According to the TGSTAT service, in the aggregate, such Russian -speaking posts scored about 750,000 views. For example, they were placed channels "Dmitry Vasilet"(136,000 views) and"The goat screamed"(80 000). Among the media, they shared a viral video "News","Ren-TV" And DR. Publications about the death of lover Macron are found in "VKontakte" Facebook, Instagram, Livejournal (examples here And here), X, Tiktok And Cont. In addition, this news was widely dispersed to English (In the X post of the user @Peacemaket71 scored 715,000 views), Spanish (@ISAACRRR7, 1 million) and other languages.
Although Solovyov’s Telegram channel claims that in France this interview allegedly caused a scandal and that local media write about it, “verified” did not find reports about the death of the alleged HIV-infected lover of Macron in at least some major French publications. However, the news is really distributed French right bloggers whose posts Get Millions of views.
In such publications, as in the post in Solovyov’s channel, almost a two -minute video is often given. Although French speech sounds behind the scenes, the video is accompanied by subtitles in English, and also contains screenshots of several English -language articles. At the same time, the sources of messages about the death of the alleged lover of Macron are not French, but African media. For example, at the beginning of the recording, the material of the South African English -language site published on March 31 is shown Mzansi Extreme (According to the time mark, it came out only 58 minutes before the creation of the video). From then until the moment of publication of this analysis, there were no other notes on the site.
Following the video shows the released on March 29 and already Remote Note of the Senegal news portal Sene.news (Mzansi Extreme also referred to it). “Checked” found a softened one copy Pages with that article. In the original, it is written in French, but for some reason it is demonstrated in a francoline video in English. We also discovered several Cameroon francoling sites with the same news: Actu Cameroun (note published on March 30), 237actu And 237online (In the last two, they also referred to Sene.news).
It is noteworthy that the authors of the interview with Fleming call themselves two sites at once - both Sene.news and Actu Cameroun. At the same time, both articles provide the same almost four -minute video, published March 28 on YouTube channel Parlons Sida! (“Let's talk about AIDS!” - Fr.). For incomplete three weeks, only 1600 views and not a single comment scored interviews.
Channel Parlons Sida! It was registered on July 13, 2023, but all seven videos published there about the fight against AIDS appeared on March 27–28, 2025. Moreover, it was “verified” that six videos (exception - interview with Fleming) were taken from other sources. For example, first The interview was posted four years ago on the channel Solidarité Sida, Second - 14 years ago on Voa Afrique, third - eight years ago on Editions L'A Harmattan, Fourth - 13 years ago on Mingha Africa Onlus, Fifth - Nine years ago on CNLS Senegal, Sixth - 12 years ago on Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
The reason that someone decided to interview Fleming is not very clear. Although in the viral video and in the Telegram channel of Solovyov he is called a famous activist who is fighting with the spread of AIDS in Africa, he could not find any evidence of his alleged merits. At the same time, the interviewer, speaking of the disease to which he is supposedly very concerned, makes a mistake that is common among the townsfolk - confuses HIV and AIDS. Below are a complete translation of the conversation:
- Hello. Thank you for agreeing to make a report on the issue of the AIDS epidemic on the African continent and beyond. Please introduce yourself to our audience.
- Hello, my name is Raul Fleming. I was born on the Antilles on The island of Saint-Martin. Last year, I visited African countries, including Senegal, Benin and Cat-D'Ivoire, to help local hospitals and AIDS fighting.
- What exactly is your activity in Africa?
- I do a lot of things, it depends on the needs of a particular organization or hospital. Sometimes I have to be a courier and deliver parcels from point A to point B, sometimes I am entrusted with local tasks: for example, print brochures, organize a fundraising or do something else, etc.
- What associations do you work with?
- I collaborated with such associations as CNLS, Rnp+, Unaids (National AIDS Council in Senegal, a national network of associations of people living with HIV/AIDS in Senegal, and the United UN program for HIV/AIDS, respectively. - Approx. Ed.), Etc.
- Why did you decide to become an AIDS activist?
- First of all, AIDS remains a serious problem of public health on the African continent. By statistics, [human immunodeficiency virus] infected more than 25 million people. A significant number of Africans are infected, but there are not enough drugs, drugs and tools for AIDS prevention. Then this disease touched my family.
- Do you have relatives who infected this virus?
- Yes, a year ago I lost my brother. He died of AIDS. This tragic event prompted me to take part in the fight against AIDS. We were very close to him.
- My sincere condolences. How did he get infected?
- He led a rather stormy sex life, and his sexual partners were mostly men. He even had sex with Emmanuel Macron after his visit to Saint-Martin in 2018.
- With French President Emmanuel Macron?
- Right. We even took a picture with him. My brother met him for some time immediately after this meeting, he went to visit him in France, but he preferred to maintain the confidentiality of information about the details of their relationship.
- When did your brother find out that he has AIDS?
- Shortly before death. He did not know that his poor health was associated with this infection. When he discovered this, his condition was already too serious. That is why we must inform people about AIDS prevention methods. In Europe, people no longer die from AIDS, but in Africa and other former colonies there is very little information, and it is very difficult to get treatment due to the lack of funding. We must do our best to change the situation.
- Once again I express my condolences to you. However, what priority measures must be implemented to combat AIDS epidemic on the African continent?
- First of all, of course, this is a matter of financing and dissemination of information. AIDS is a disease with which you can live today. It is enough to provide infected drugs, but this requires money that is catastrophically lacking. People also need to be informed about the risks of infection, the need for contraception and how to recognize symptoms at an early stage of the disease.
- Thank you for devoting us time, and for the work you did.
In 2018, Macron is actually I visited The French island of Saint-Martin in the Caribbean. The visit made a year after the destructive hurricane "Irma" CALL Scandal: During photographing a politician with local residents, one of them showed the middle finger on the camera. Leader of the French right Marine Le Pen Name The behavior of a man is "unforgivable." Macron defended the photograph, saying: "I love all the children of the [French] republic, whatever their misconduct."
Then the press Reportedthat a man dressed in a T -shirt in the photo is a former criminal who, shortly before, left prison, where he was serving a deadline for robbery. In a personal conversation Macron I asked To think about his mother, “stop driving a fool” and not make mistakes anymore. Late newspaper Le Parisien found outthat the 22-year-old man is the name Reolf (Raul) Fleming, and an obscene gesture was shown by his cousin, 19-year-old Dimitri. “I know that showing the middle finger is not good,” said the eldest of the brothers. “But that was not at all against the president.” At that time [brother] did it just for the sake of style. He showed this to those who did not want everything to be fine in our life ... those who do not like to see us with the president. " According to Reolf, his cousin most likely regrets that he showed a scandalous gesture. “The president is like an older brother for us. We love him very much, he is a good person, ”added Fleming.
Soon after meeting with Macron, the man was again convicted, this time for the storage of drugs and the resistance of the police. In the same month Le Parisien reportedThat Fleming was sentenced to eight months in prison, four of which were conditional. Although, apparently, the French media for some time quite actively followed the fate of the brothers, not a single major publication reported one of them with the president of the country.
There is no evidence that the interview about the death of his brother from AIDS was given by Reolf Fleming. It could be just a similar person and an actor, whose appearance was corrected with the help of neural networks. Nevertheless, “verified” can neither confirm nor refute the use of artificial intelligence when creating a video-we checked it in several AI detectors and received conflicting results.
At the same time, we can confidently say that a person in the video (whoever he is) lied about the death of Dimitri. “Verified” found the page of his brother Fleming on Instagram, it was there that he in 2018 posted a joint picture with Macron. “Even the president ... feels safe next to us ...” - said in that post. Now the account @_NBA.DIDI Private, that is, only subscribers can see its publications. After two requests for the approval of the subscription, the owner of the account blocked the author “verified”. However page Dimitri in Threads is publicly available, and there are a couple of posts for 2025 with a photo, removed in the USA. For example, c publications From February 1, it is captured on Times Square in New York. In addition, on April 16, the Saint-Marten singer Tamillia I went out clipWhere is Dimitri Performed The role of her lover. At the same time, in public posts, the man did not write anything about HIV/AIDS.
In the story of the false death of Dimitri there are other indirect signs of falsification. “Verified” has repeatedly talked about very similar fakes that were based on an interview with black people who allegedly reveal the secrets of Western politicians. For example, on the eve of the US presidential elections in the fall of 2024 Hanged Fastened reports that the candidate from the Democrats of Kamal Harris during a visit to Zambia shot a rare rhino. The person who was represented by an employee of the Zazbian National Park, but actually did not work there, as if by chance, did not work out about this. As in the case of the revelations of Fleming, the day before the video appeared on a suspicious YouTube channel, and then the Zimbabvian site told about it. Fakes spread in a similar way, according to which Harris shot down a teenager and disappeared from the scene of an accident, and the US Foreign Minister Annalena Berobok I used it In Africa, escort services. In one case I managed to provethat the actress living in St. Petersburg in St. Petersburg acted in an interview: she played the role of an employee of the New York boutique Cartier, where the first lady of Ukraine Elena Zelenskaya allegedly spent more than $ 1 million.
“Verified” turned to the editorial offices of Sene.news and Actu Cameroon sites with a request to explain how they prepared their publications. In addition, we wrote in the press service of the CNLS organization to find out whether Reolf Fleming really collaborated with them. By the time of publication of this analysis, we did not receive answers.
Thus, whoever a man from a viral video was, he definitely lies about the death of a cousin of Reolf Fleming from AIDS. This at least casts doubt on the reliability of the rest of the story about his sexual connection with the President of France. In addition, indirect signs indicate that the video was another setting aimed at discrediting a Western policy.
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