- A sequence of just over two minutes is relayed on Facebook and on Twitter.
- She is supposed to show tensions in the suburbs, in the middle of confinement, according to one of the descriptions attributed to her.
- But a detail that we find in other videos from February 2017 in Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) shows that it actually turned around this time, and is therefore reused out of context.
"This is what is happening in the suburbs now after the police blunders. On Facebook, a video viewed more than 17,000 times in a few days claims to show violence during the period of confinement.
Lasting two and a half minutes, it shows a crowd (some of whose members have their faces masked) crossing a bus station with broken windows at dusk. Then we see a small group attacking, on a gangway, two ATMs of La Banque Postale before the videographer continues his journey in the neighboring streets, where we can see, in the distance, a vehicle equipped with a rotating beacon at the end of the sequence.
If violence has indeed taken place in certain suburbs in recent days, these images have nothing to do with the news since they date back to 2017 and are therefore taken out of context - as suggested by the winter clothes worn by number of passers-by.
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Failing to be able to go back to the original video, several sequences filmed on February 11, 2017 in Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) confirm that this sequence was filmed on the same day.
At the end of a demonstration in support of Theo, the young man whose violent arrest by the police had sparked a lively controversy, scuffles had indeed broken out at the end of the day. In particular near the Pablo Picasso bus station, located at the exit of the metro station of the same name, which can be recognized on Google Street View.
We can thus clearly see, on the video below, from 7'14, a crowd of people dressed in winter coats leave the bus station, whose windows are already broken, at dusk. We then see, from 8'16, the same bank distributor located on the bridge, completely destroyed. And a few seconds later (8'33) the police are posted in front of the distributor and all along the staircase leading to the bridge, which allows them to gain height in front of the crowd.
Finally, we find the same distributors of La Banque Postale on a video broadcast live on Periscope, once night has fully fallen. From 1'09'40, the videographer films him from afar, then from close up, before being dislodged by the police.
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