A teenager brutalized for not wearing a mask? Back on a rumor

Coronavirus: a teenager brutalized for not wearing a mask?

OMF Oh My fake returns to a rumor -

Violent images.

In an Australian pub in Melbourne, a teenager is subjected to a strangling key by a security guard, before being violently thrown to the ground, face down, like a bundle. 

The reason for this outburst, according to internet users?

The teenager was not wearing a mask against the coronavirus.

Except ... it wasn't.

If these images are striking in their brutality, the story conveyed on social networks does not correspond to reality.

Yet we are inclined to believe her.

Why ?

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