On Twitter, a video has been circulating a lot since Monday.
It shows a man in the process of "exorcising" passengers in the metro.
As soon as he says "And you fall", the victim runs.
Enough to frighten the entire metro train, as well as many Internet users who no longer want to set foot in transport.
But this video is actually a joke, admits its author to
20 Minutes
.
Is there really a risk of being exorcised at the Croix de Chavaux station?
On Twitter, a video posted Monday and liked more than 24,000 times since shows a strange scene.
In line 9, a man is moving forward in a metro train.
He stops and orders a traveler: “You are going to fall”.
Immediately, the arrested man collapsed on the ground.
Fury in the subway train.
A woman tries to help the slumped man, but falls in turn, under the orders of the "exorciser".
One, two, three and then four travelers end up dropping like flies.
Very quickly, the rest of the passengers try to escape towards the door of the subway.
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Images that have worried more than one Internet user.
“I no longer take the metro”, alarms in particular a Twittos.
But they can reassure themselves.
The victims on these videos seem mostly played by actors.
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explains why.
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On social networks, many Internet users wonder about the veracity of the images.
Many shout “fake”.
We therefore tried to understand the origin of these images in order to know if we could really believe in powers exercised on simple metro passengers.
The video was originally posted on the TikTok social network by an account followed by nearly 155,000 people.
On several of his publications, the man "exorciser" returns.
The concept is the same, only the frame changes.
After the metro, the bus, the street… each time with passers-by to observe the scene.
But the frame is the only element that changes.
On several videos, we indeed notice the recurrence of certain characters: a woman dressed in black with a yellow patterned bag and a man wearing a fluorescent yellow T-shirt and a hat.
Everything suggests that they are actors.
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The similarity of the videos
The scenes are similar, moreover, especially in the dialogues.
In the majority of the videos, the woman falls first and the man in neon comes running, exclaiming: “It's him!
He's the one who knocked it down!
".
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The scenario also remains the same.
Most often, the "exorciser" arrives and expresses his dissatisfaction with a situation.
On a video shot in a metro station, there is too much waiting at the terminal and it does not suit him: he makes the woman fall in front.
On another video shot this time in the street, "the exorciser" sees a woman smoking, which makes him indignant.
He knocked it down.
Other critiques of society are also staged, including the issue of infidelity.
This is also the one we find in the metro scene, where "the exorciser" exclaims "Madam, he is cheating on you", before bringing down his alleged companion.
A
well reported
prank
We managed to reach the author of these videos and metro passengers can be reassured, it is indeed "a
prank
".
"I point it out in some of my content, in the hashtags", admits our interlocutor.
People who fall are actors.
But why worry passers-by?
"With other artists, our goal is more to amuse them, sometimes by sending messages such as the importance of loyalty," says the videographer.
He also admits to being the first surprised by the extent of this video.
"I don't know why Internet users took this for a real video, when there are all the elements together to see that it's a joke", laughs the TikTokeur, who emphasizes having reported the prank contained as much as possible. in the video.
“I had even done a live before publishing it and I report the joke with the #prank”, he concludes.
More fear than harm therefore, even if another vision of horror could very quickly arise in the underground areas of the Paris metro: the RATP strike organized this Thursday.
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