Propaganda
manufacturing
Five people
in Port Said allegedly making fake videos purporting to show the
wreckage of air strikes in the Syrian city of Aleppo have been
arrested, the Egyptian Interior Ministry has said.
The
videographer, his assistants and the parents of two children who
appear in the footage were detained after police managed to trail the
would-be camera crew to a building site awaiting demolition, a
statement on Monday said.
The team
reportedly admitted they had planned to distribute their work on
social media, pretending it showed scenes of the injured and
destruction in Aleppo, the embattled northern Syrian city which has
just fallen back under government control after four years of
fighting between the regime and Sunni rebels.
It was not
immediately clear what charges had been brought against the five. The
Independent has contacted the Egyptian authorities for clarification.
In the
distinctly amateur raw videos and stills released by the Interior
Ministry, an eight-year-old girl wears a white dress and bandages
covered in red stains, and holds a teddy bear. A 12-year-old boy is
also interviewed about what life is like under intensive
Russian-backed Syrian government air strikes.
The girl’s
dress, covered in red paint, was what caught the attention of a
police officer driving by, the ministry said.
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