The images were filmed in 2011. However, they have been shared since this weekend, to suggest that they are linked to the coronavirus.
They show customers crowded in front of a supermarket in Germany. They rush inside to make stocks, "for fear of the coronavirus", add Internet users who share it. This video goes around social networks: it was published by German-speaking, French-speaking and even Chinese-speaking Internet users.
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The video was filmed in 2011 in front of an Aldi supermarket. The brand confirms to 20 Minutes that the images are not linked to the occurrence of the coronavirus in the world. The scene took place in a shopping center in the city of Kiel, in the north of the country. The video shows "the opening of a special sale of electronic and computer equipment," says the brand.
A longer version of the video was posted on YouTube on January 31, 2011. A second user also filmed the sale while in the middle of the crowd. He specifies that this took place on January 30, 2011. He films clients taking possession of this type of equipment.
188 cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Germany on Tuesday, according to the Robert Koch institute, quoted by the Reuters agency. No deaths have been recorded so far in the country.
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