A video is going massively viral on social media in which some men are thrashing protestors sitting on a road. Sharing the video a user wrote, “*In “France” the local citizens dragging the so-called “Bhand-Jihadi agitators” by the “collar” and throwing them from the road… Here the people of India should also do the same with the people who block the road and sit in the name of the movement..”
Similarly, many other social media users have shared this video with hateful communal captions.
Fact Check
On reverse image search of different keyframes of the viral video, the DFRAC team found the same video on a YouTube channel named sky news. The video was uploaded two weeks ago with Arabic caption that can be nearly translated into English as, “Globally trending: The cities in France are the most active in the environment from the road with power. #mansaat.”
Moreover, we also got an article published in The Ground Report covering the same incident. It was mentioned in the report that, “A demonstration by the Last Renovation environmental movement, which blocked roads in Paris, causing heavy traffic jams during rush hour, turned into a confrontation with motorists when they got out of their vehicles to clear the road for themselves.”
Conclusion
Therefore, from this FactCheck, it is clear that the viral video is being shared misleadingly with a communal angle. No communal angle is involved in it.
