On Tuesday, Arab social media users posted a video of a large motorcycle procession in France following the killing of a young policeman named Nel during a traffic stop, sparking protests and riots. Funeral of a dead youth.
The video shows a large motorcycle parade.
However, this claim is not true as the video is old.
A video shows a policeman fatally shooting a young man named Nell in the chest at close range during a traffic stop on Tuesday. The arrested 38-year-old policeman was charged with premeditated murder.
The case sparked widespread anger and protest in France.
On Sunday, the French Interior Ministry announced that 719 people had been arrested on Saturday night, an unspecified number for the fifth night of rioting.
The video is true
But this video is old and has nothing to do with it.
A search of stills from the video on search engines showed that it was posted on TikTok last April, denying that it was related to the youth’s killing.
According to hashtags linked on TikTok, the video shows the funeral of Dimitri Zami, real name of a young man known as “Gimbashi” who was killed in 2019 in the French Guadeloupe Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.
The same video was also posted on Instagram, indicating that it was filmed four years ago.
Digging deeper, a similar video was posted on YouTube, filmed from another angle, posted on April 10, 2019.
According to the attached caption, the video “depicts hundreds of motorcycles at the funeral of Dimitri Zami (Zimbashi) on Tuesday, April 9, 2019.”
According to local news websites, the teenager died on March 31, 2019 when his house was robbed, and the crime sparked widespread outrage, and the three accused were referred to the judiciary.
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