In July 2025, a video with a burning mosque was dispersed over the network. It was alleged that the video was shot in Barcelona, and local residents set fire to the temple in response to the attack of migrants from North Africa on a Spanish pensioner. We checked whether these personnel are true.
Telegram channels began to spread the video on July 15. Channel "Release Krakenaz!”(65,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) noted:“ Officially, the “reasons for the fire are being investigated”, although the hedgehog understands that this happened after the incident with the beating with Moroccan migrants of the 70-year-old old man who entailed powerful skirmishes with stabbing between local and illegal immigrants. ” Similar posts came out in the channels "Migrants - everything is as it is"(83,000 views),"Russian sword"(66 000),"Sledgehammer 18+"(53,000) et al., Also video was published by users X, Facebook, Rutube And Livejournal.
July 12 in the Spanish city of Torre-Pacheko group of young people beaten The 68-year-old pensioner is supposedly for the sake of recording a video Chellenge. The victim said that the attackers were immigrants from North Africa. The news of the incident quickly dispersed through social networks, and ultra -right activists Called To the "hunt" for migrants and residents of North African origin. Subsequently, the crisis It turned out into street skirmishes in a city where out of 35,000 inhabitants approximately third - Foreigners.
On the same day, July 12, in the Catalan town of Pierre happened Fire in the building of the mosque under construction. At the time of writing this analysis, the official reason for the fire was not named, however, how emphasized Advisor for the internal affairs of the Catalan government Nuria Railon, the evidence indicated intentional arson.
Users of social networks connected these two events, affirmingthat the fire (which, according to their words, did not occur in the Poker, but in the largest mosque in Spain in Barcelona) was arranged in revenge of the Muslim community. Also, a video with a burning building with signatures spread on the Internet: "The Spaniards burned the Islamist mosque in Pierre, Barcelona."
The reverse search by the image in Google revealed that this video was actually Published Back in 2022 in Tiktok. On the original frames shot by the Indonesian news agency Tribun Network, captured A fire in the Islamic center of Jakarta, which occurred on October 19, 2022. Many others Media Then they published similar ones videosOn which the burning dome of the temple was captured. The imam of the mosque Muhammad Subka said that the fire broke out during the repair, most likely, according to the negligence of the builders, and quickly flared up due to strong winds.
The mosque in Jakarta has nothing to do with the mosque in the Spanish city of Pierre, located 55 km from Barcelona. The Catalan mosque building has no dome: she Represents A one -story building with an arc roof.
Another inaccuracy made by users of social networks is a temporary discrepancy between two events. The attack on a pensioner in Torre-Paceco happened on July 12 at about 6 a.m., and a fire in the city of Pierre-almost three hours earlier. That is, the alleged arson could not be a response to beating, like Approved Many Telegram channels.
One of the first to publish a three -year -old video from Jakarta with an incorrect signature was the blogger Tommy Robinson. July 14, 2025 at 21:35 Moscow time, he placed a video on the social network X, that fast He scored 1.4 million views and 3000 retweets. At the same time, the blogger put on the frames of the burning building in Jakarta Photo The interior of the mosque in the Poker before and after the fire - apparently, to add the video of reliability. In the Russian-speaking Internet, the earliest found “checked” publication with the video appeared in the Telegram channel "Release Krakenaz!"July 15 at 06:43 Moscow time. This channel regularly posts critical posts about Western countriesincluding about Spain.
Thus, the shots of the burning mosque, spreading on the Internet, have nothing to do with the fire in the Poer and the attack on the pensioner in Torre-Pacheko. The video was shot back in 2022 in Indonesia.
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