On January 16, the Russian Embassy in Spain tweeted a video of protests in Paris, suggesting it showed a crowd of people rallying in opposition to French military support for Ukraine.
The embassy said in a Spanish language caption: “Massive protests in Paris against the shipment of weapons to Ukraine.”
That is false. In fact, the video tweeted by the embassy shows a protest against plans to raise the retirement age in France.
The video displays the logo of the Russian state news agency RT (Russia Today) and the internet address of its Spanish language service Actualidad. It has no narration; original sound, including crowd voices, was replaced with ominous-sounding music.
After showing marchers, the RT video cuts to Florian Philippot, leader of the far-right Party of Patriots, known to organize anti-vaccine, pro-Kremlin and anti-Ukraine rallies.
“France increasingly adopts co-belligerent status. From the moment we send tanks, we can't say we're just defensive. Co-belligerent means a world war,” Philippot says in a closed caption, then the video continues showing demonstrators.
Philippot’s comments on Ukraine have nothing to do with the rally behind him, but RT Actualidad made them appear to be related.
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