A “wonderful scene”, but doctored.
On TikTok, Facebook or even YouTube, many Internet users have been deceived by a video showing snow falling in Mecca.
We see pilgrims circulating around the Kaaba, within the al-Haram mosque, while snowflakes are falling.
The video was reportedly shot on January 1.
It circulated in several languages, as well in Arabic as in French or in English.
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This video is "incorrect" and has been "processed with effects", Hussein Al-Qahtani, spokesman for Saudi Arabia's National Meteorological Center, said on Sunday.
An explanation also advanced by the official Twitter account of the province of Mecca.
If it happens to snow in Saudi Arabia, it is not flakes that fell on Sunday in Mecca, but rain, as announced by the Saudi Meteorological Center.
This is not the first time that Internet users have falsely claimed that it snowed on this sacred place.
In 2020, images of a snow-covered mosque in Iran were hijacked to suggest they showed the Saudi capital.
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