- In Australia, a hunt to kill 10,000 camels considered harmful was to be carried out this week.
- A user claims to post images of some of these dead animals on Facebook in a post that has gone viral.
- But he actually uses images that are several months old, taken out of context.
The news had moved several internet users or personalities - including Hugo Clément - this week: the announced use, in Australia, of snipers to shoot down, from helicopters, 10,000 wild dromedaries.
A decision that aims to protect against the threat that these animals represent for the population, they who are always approaching certain localities of the country in search of water, in the middle of a drought.
On Facebook, a surfer claims to show the first images of the dromedaries shot on this occasion. "Here, the snipers bastards are at work and already nearly 1,500 dromedaries have been killed," says this post shared almost 9,000 times in the space of a day.
But the four photos which illustrate it - one showing dromedaries fleeing from a helicopter, and the other three of the corpses of these animals - were taken well before the announcement of this search, which was to start on Wednesday 8 January.
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Contacted by 20 Minutes , Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara, the area of aboriginal local government that announced the slaughter on its Facebook page, was unable to tell us before the publication of the article if the slaughter had started well on schedule.
However, the photo showing dromedaries trying to escape from a helicopter takes up the illustration of the short film "Judas Collar", posted on Vimeo on November 3, 2019. which tells the story of a camel used as a tracker by hunters seeking to eliminate their flock.
There was also a trace from August 2019, in a New Daily article, of the image of the rifle aimed at the bodies of camels and that showing a pile of dead animals, taken by Jack Carmody, manager of a farm. Australian.
Finally, the snapshot of the dead camel was put online last October to illustrate an amateur article telling the story of such a search - this type of operation is indeed common in Australia, where dromedaries attract the wrath of 'a part of the population considering them as harmful - just like kangaroos.
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