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An article in Le Monde on February 14 relayed a photo taken during the rally on the Champs Elysées of opponents of the vaccine pass on Saturday February 12, commenting: “ two flags flutter in the wind above the vehicle, one in the colors of France, the other in those of the Taliban regime “.
Was the freedom convoy infiltrated by Taliban? On social networks, many Internet users are indignant at the images of a policeman drawing his weapon in order to immobilize a vehicle covered with a blue-white-red flag, during the rally on the Champs Elysées of opponents of the vaccine pass. Saturday February 12.
But a detail surprises other commentators: on the car would also float a suspicious white flag, the one adopted by the Taliban when they seized power in Afghanistan, in August 2021. Above would be written the chahada, the profession of faith of the Islam.
The world this “information” is then relayed in an article of February 14, entitled: “ Questions about the presence of an Afghan flag in the “freedom convoy” in Paris “. And the daily to write: two flags flutter in the wind above the vehicle, one in the colors of France, the other in those of the Taliban regime “.
Looking at the TF1 video, image by image, we can see, in reality, that the supposed chahada written on the white flag is made up of straight lines forming, together, the letters of the very French word ” FREEDOM “.
Faced with this freeze frame, the journalist from Le Monde admitted his mistake, explaining that he relied on a tweet from Afghan news agency Asvaka. A tweet that described the scene as follows: An Afghan citizen was arrested by police for waving a Taliban flag while on patrol in the French city of Paris “. The worldfor its part, ended up correcting its article.
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