Readers who have been following the crisis in Aleppo have seen media
reports of videos and photos allegedly originating from innocent
children victims, pleading against the advance of the Assad forces. And
while there have been various accusations that these clips, like the
infamous "chemical attack" YouTube clip from 2013, were staged, such
reports were promptly slammed by the mainstream media as "fake news" and
roundly ignored. However, if one ever needed a reason to be skeptical
of claims, photographs, and/or videos coming out of the region, and the
MSM's appeals to readers emotions based on fabricated facts, Egyptian
authorities have just provided it.
Egyptian police arrested five people in Port Said, Egypt for
making staged "wounded children" photos, which they were planning to
use to misrepresent on social media as photos of destruction and injured
people in Syria's Aleppo, the Egyptian Interior Ministry said on Monday. The group also made fake videos that purport to show the wreckage of air strikes in Aleppo.
The shooting team, which included the photographer's assistants and
parents of the children, was detained in the Egypt's province of Port
Said," the Ministry said on Facebook.
According to the Ministry, the police witnessed the shooting process,
which was taking place near the vestiges of a building destroyed as
illegal under the decision of the local authorities. A girl standing in a
white dress covered in "blood" that later proved to be paint, drew
attention of a police officer driving by. The girl held a teddy bear
covered in the same "blood" and had her arm "bandaged".
The Facebook statement said the videographer,
his assistants, and the parents of two children who appear in the
footage were detained after a trail led police to them at a building
site awaiting demolition. The five have reportedly admitted they were planning to distribute their footage on social media,
which was supposed to show an eight-year-old girl in a white dress and
bandages, covered in red stains while holding a teddy bear.
“A 12-year-old boy is also interviewed about what life is like under intensive Russian-backed Syrian government air strikes,” reported
The Independent
The photographer also admitted that he was going to publish these photos on social media as pictures of Aleppo.
Also troubling is the willingness of the conventional media to accept
most of these reports at face value without ever questioning their
authenticity.
The fact the mass media disproportionately focuses on Aleppo while turning a blind eye to the horrendous crimes being committed in Yemen courtesy
of the United States, the United Kingdom, and an inexperienced
Saudi-led coalition indicates the media’s concerns for human rights in
Syria are disingenuous, as the AntiMedia correctly notes.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-20/5-arrested-after-egyptian-police-bust-staged-photo-shoot-wounded-aleppo-children
