The real Vitali Klitschko reacted quickly to the "deepfake" that fell for the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Franziska Giffey, her counterpart in Madrid, José Luis Martinez-Almeida, and the Mayor of Vienna, Michael Ludwig.

With a video that can be seen at “Bild”.

"Dear friends," he says: "I'm Vitali Klitschko, mayor of the beautiful city of Kwiw." There is someone who has contacted other mayors, used Klitschko's name and "said absurd things".

This is evidence of “criminal energy”.

It must be “urgently determined who is behind it”.

Incidentally, official conversations with him are only through official channels and for those who want to speak German or English with him: "I never need a translator, have a nice day."

How did the conversation come about?

Michael Hanfeld

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With that, Vitali Klitschko outlines the problem within a minute and indicates how one could have prevented Franziska Giffey from speaking for several minutes to someone whom she took to be Vitali Klitschko.

The interrogation may have been convincing from the visual point of view, but not only its content is questionable, but also how it came about and why the fake Vitali Klitschko wanted to speak to Giffey in Russian.

One or the other might have noticed that the mayor of Kyiv, former boxing world champion and doctorate in sports science speaks German.

But for the fact that the fake conversation should be in Russian, she was offered an explanation, Franziska Giffey writes on Twitter: "At the beginning of the conversation, we were asked whether it could take place in Russian + translated, since other non-German-speaking employees were also there should be able to understand what is being discussed.”

Employees of Vitali Klitschko only understand the Russian language?

That could have seemed Spanish to Franziska Giffey and her team.

But that didn't happen, or only when the fake Klitschko's questions became too absurd - when the fake person asked whether it wasn't a problem that Ukrainians in Germany stole social benefits, whether Ukrainian men shouldn't be asked to go home to send to fight and how to organize a Christopher Street Day in Kyiv.

His caller, said Vienna Mayor Michael Ludwig, spoke in English.

The e-mail addresses used for the preparation would have looked real.

In the course of the conversation, the alleged Klitschko, as reported by the German Press Agency, "appeared more demanding".

The conversation ended, there were no doubts about the authenticity.

"Since no catchy topics were discussed in the conversation, this is certainly annoying in a specific case, but not a big problem," said SPÖ politician Ludwig on Austrian radio ORF.

What should state security determine?

Not a big problem?

In Berlin, where it is assumed to have been taken in by a digital forgery - "Apparently we are dealing with deepfake," said Senate spokeswoman Lisa Frerichs - the state protection of the criminal police is now investigating.

And what should the police investigate?

That Russian was the forgers' language of choice may provide a first clue.

Franziska Giffey is now receiving numerous pointed references to her carelessness online, starting with the ironic fact that she of all people, whose doctoral degree was revoked because of plagiarism in her dissertation, falls for a “falsification” to the pointed assessment that that will probably work under the keyword "Good Fake Conference".