Egyptian film crew arrested for 'fake' Aleppo video

9news (au) ^ | 12/21/16

[Freelance Warrior]

A fake video purported to show war ravaged Aleppo days after government forces retook control has led authorities to a group of filmmakers who have been arrested for the ruse in a demolition site in Port Said. Two children an eight-year-old girl, and a 12-year-old boy appeared in the footage. The group confessed to making the video with the intention of distributing it on social media.

The filmmaker, his assistants and the parents of two children were detained after officers passing by the site spotted a child covered in what was later revealed to be red paint.

[Freelance Warrior]

The video in the Egyptian Inferior Ministry's Facebook account. The UK's 'The Independent' (their items can't be posted here) and the Russian 'Sputnik' have already reported this story in English.
(The picture is cut from the video by a Russian web-site)

[BlackVeil]

Very strange and elaborate deception - it seems. Of course, one has to rely upon the word of the Egyptian authorities.

[Freelance Warrior]

one has to rely upon the word of the Egyptian authorities.

In Egypt they have no other authorities.

[wbarmy]

I do not see what the problem is (sarc)

Fake But Accurate!!!

[Rashputin]

I believe the Egyptians. They've been fighting the MB since the fifties and aren't any slouches when it comes to knowing exactly how to smoke them out and crack down on them. Look at how they waited a long time for the protests over the MB being tossed out so the mob would be worn down and all the MB people would be uncovered before they came down hard on the fake protests and MB scum.

In a country where a Muslim is seldom executed, they hung over 650 one day and nearly that many more during the next month.

If you prefer to believe the liars and Muzzies who support the MB and ISIS in Syria, fine, so be it. But you're going to have to do a lot more than the cute little insinuations to convince anyone who knows something about Egypt and the Egyptian military to think you're anything other than another MB/ISIS apologist pretending to be something else.

[McGruff]

Westerners are so gullible. Except those dam deplorables!

[Freelance Warrior]

gullible Westerners

Gullible people are loved by everyone... oh, I meant by every swindler...