- Have migrants been filmed looting a delivery van in France?
- This is what a viral post on Facebook implies.
- But it is based on a video filmed in California at the end of May 2020, on the sidelines of a rally for George Floyd.
One after another, the people gathered around an Amazon Prime delivery truck extract more or less large packages before giving way to their neighbor. Almost a minute passes before the looters finally abandon the van, filmed in broad daylight and under the eyes of motorists parked next to it.
“Friendly migrants help a tired delivery woman unload her packages. What is a bad language anyway! », Comments ironically the user who shared this sequence on Facebook.
But as some details visible in the video already suggest, the scene was not filmed in France and does not show migrants.
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Several elements show that the scene was filmed abroad: the yellow road sign (visible 0'54), the shape of the license plates ... A reverse search of images carried out on an extract of the sequence on confirms since it refers to English posts on Reddit and 9Gag.
What then goes back to various press articles dated early June specifying the context of this scene which took place in Santa Monica, California, on May 31 - as can be seen on Google Street View - on the sidelines of 'a rally organized after the death of George Floyd.
As reported in particular Fox 5 New York or Business Insider, this video was filmed from the balcony of a former journalist, Kyli Singh. “I first saw looters park in the street, rush into stores and come back with pairs of shoes. Then I saw a small group of looters throw stones at an Amazon Prime van, and enter it, ”she said.
A noticeable moment in the full footage of the video uploaded to Fox 5 New York, in which a woman is additionally heard screaming, "What the fuck are you doing?" "
According to Kyli Singh, the driver of the vehicle, who arrived after the looting, spoke to the police and cleaned up the debris from the window that had fallen on his seat before leaving. The overflows in Santa Monica that day resulted in more than 400 arrests, mostly of people living near Santa Monica, according to local authorities.
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