A Blogger Shared A Hoax Video Of "Muslim Gangs" And It Went Viral On Facebook
BuzzFeed - Latest 2016-02-01
Summary:
Turns out the video is actually from 2013 and of a soccer gang, having nothing to do with Muslims at all.
Ron Dwyer, who describes himself as a blogger for local station G1NBC TV, posted a video to Facebook on Wednesday which he said shows "French vigilante groups fighting Muslim gangs in the streets of Paris."
This video, just over a minute long, has been shared around 20,000 times and seen over 1,200,000 times on Facebook in less than a week.
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The problem is, they don't show French people fighting "Muslim gangs" at all. They show soccer fans on the Champs-Élysées, filmed by the Line Press agency, after Paris Saint Germain won the League 1 Championship on May 12, 2013.
The celebrations soon turned violent. Twenty-one people were arrested, and seven store windows were damaged, Le Parisien reported at the time.
