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CCTV videos people are sharing are NOT from the Brussels attacks
22
March, 2016
Many
people are sharing CCTV video footage, claiming it's from Tuesday's
attacks in Brussels.
However, these videos were actually captured previous explosions in
Moscow and Minsk, the capital of Belarus.
One
video, seen below, was recorded at Moscow's Domodedovo International
Airport on Jan. 24, 2011, when a suicide bomber killed 37
people.
People
on social media shared it on Tuesday and said it showed the blasts at
the Brussels airport.
Other
videos, all showing different angles of the April 11, 2011, bombing
of the Minsk Metro, are also being misrepresented as depicting the
Brussels blasts that killed 15.
The
false reports started when a Twitter account for a magazine
in Lisbon, Portugal, tweeted the videos, which Storyful
identified as a "key" link in the chain of misinformation.
?￢ﾀﾼUnconfirmed: CCTV Video of the explosion in the #Malbeek subway from #Brussels.pic.twitter.com/OjWVRyNHyk
— Onlinemagazin (@OnlineMagazin) March 22, 2016
A
number of international news organizations, including CNN, then cited
the account, @OnlineMagazin, as a source.
David Clinch
CNN crediting "Onlinmagazine" for Brussels video. Is that scraper @OnlineMagazin that tweeted fake/old CCTV video?
"Unfortunately,
dramatic videos like these tend to get shared by hundreds of people,
simply because they don't have the knowledge or expertise to verify,"
said Storyful journalist Joe Gavin.
"However,
it is worrying when professional journalists and news organizations
are doing the same," he said.
First Draft
Officials have not yet released CCTV footage of today's #BrusselsAttacks. These B&W vids are old or highly suspect
At
least 26 people were killed on Tuesday and more than 130 injured,
when blasts tore through the departures hall of Brussels'
international airport and, later, a metro station in the heart of the
city.
Residents
there have been told to shelter in place as the authorities evacuate
the dead and injured and brace for further attacks.
This is the orginal not shown on Mashable
This is probably more accurate
By
Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Brussels
News media Dernière Heure at dhnet.be as well as La Libre reported
on the terror attacks by providing a CC Camera Airport Surveillance
Video of the terror attacks.
The
published video footage was fake as documented by a blog posting on
Media Part.
The
video pertains to a terror attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport on
24 January 2011 (posted on youtube in November 2013).
The
report of DHnet.be on the Brussels airport attack used the video of
the Moscow 2011 attack with the date of the Brussels attack:
(22/03/2016) pasted onto the Russian video.
According
to the
BBC (January 24, 2011) report (which includes the video), the Moscow
2011 airport attack resulted
in 35 dead.
Both
the DH and Le Libre reports have since then been removed:
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