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In December
2016, filmmakers in Egypt were arrested in the process of staging an
Aleppo video with two children: the girl was meant to look injured,
and the boy was to vilify both Russia and Syria.
Even the
corporate media reported on it, including: “The girl’s dress,
covered in red paint, was what caught the attention of a police
officer driving by, the ministry said.”
The
incidences of fakery and hoaxes, however, does not end there.
Also in
December, the scene of a ‘Girl running to survive after her family
had been killed’ was said to be in Aleppo. In reality, it was a
scene from a Lebanese music video, which someone at some point
clearly chose to depict as in Aleppo, for the same anti-Russian,
anti-Assad vilification purposes.
In November
2014, a clip dubbed ‘Syrian hero boy’ went viral, viewed over 5
million times already by mid-November. The clip showed what appeared
to be a little boy saving his sister from sniper gunfire, and was
assumed to have been in Syria.
The
Telegraph’s Josie Ensor didn’t wait for any sort of verification
of the video which she cited as having been uploaded on November 10,
the next day writing: “…it is thought the incident took place
in Yabroud – a town near the Lebanese border which was the last
stronghold of the moderate Free Syrian Army. Experts tell the paper
they have no reason to doubt its authenticity. The UN has previously
accused the Syrian regime of ‘crimes against humanity’ –
including the use of snipers against small children.”
On November
14, the BBC brought on ‘Middle East specialist’ Amira Galal to
give her expert opinion on the clip. She asserted: “We can
definitely say that it is Syria, and we can definitely say that it’s
probably on the regime frontlines. We see in the footage that there
is a barrel, it’s painted on it the Syrian army flag.”
Once again,
the so-called ‘experts’ got it wrong. The barrel which Galal
referred to had a poor imitation of the flag of Syria painted on it,
the flag’s color sequence out of order. The clip she was so certain
had been filmed in government areas of Syria was actually produced in
Malta by Norwegian filmmakers.
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