Fake video claims Ukrainian refugees set fire to a house in Germany

A video has falsely claimed that Ukrainian refugees have burned down a house in Germany after making an attempt to set fireplace to a Russian flag.

The deceptive footage has been shared hundreds of occasions on varied social media platforms in Russian, German, and Bulgarian.

The clip alleges that the German tabloid newspaper Bild printed a video displaying a home burning in Germany. 

The video then reveals a clip of a crying lady — allegedly the daughter of the property proprietor. The caption falsely alleges that Ukrainian refugees set the constructing on fireplace after making an attempt to burn a Russian flag.

Bild’s deputy Editor-in-Chief Timo Lokoschat has stated on Twitter that the newspaper didn’t publish any such video.

“The reality is: BILD by no means wrote this information report. This can be a full faux,” he wrote on Could 17.

Additional investigation has revealed that the footage of a home fireplace dates a number of years earlier than the warfare in Ukraine started.

The video was first printed on YouTube in 2013 when a constructing caught fireplace within the German village of Walluf – virtually 300 kilometres away from it was claimed Ukrainian refugees had supposedly set fireplace to a home.

Furthermore, the footage of the lady crying additionally was first shared in January 2021, months earlier than hundreds of thousands of individuals fled Ukrainian territory.

Whereas the clip did originate from a Bild information story — an interview the place the lady explains that her mom died of most cancers and her dwelling then burned down — it doesn’t make any reference to Ukrainian refugees.

Greater than 700,000 individuals fleeing the warfare in Ukraine have been recorded in Germany up till mid-Could, based on Germany’s Central Register of Foreigners (AZR).