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TRUE OR FALSE. Did Volodymyr Zelensky acquire Josef Goebbels’ former house?
TRUE OR FALSE. Did Volodymyr Zelensky acquire Josef Goebbels’ former house? – (France 2)
According to Russian accounts on social networks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky bought for 8 million euros a villa in Germany that belonged to Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda chief.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is accused of buying the villa of Josef Goebbels, former Nazi propaganda chief. An assertion relayed tens of thousands of times on social networks, with what is presented as an act of sale in support. But the document dated November 11, 2023 is a fake. Our AFP colleagues found the notary of German origin whose name appears on paper: not only is the legal vocabulary not appropriate, but she has been retired for 10 years.
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Volodymyr Zelensky is accused by pro-Russian accounts and the QAnon movement of having made a financial arrangement via a company based in a tax haven. The information is not new but concerns other acquisitions. In 2021, the name of the Ukrainian president appears in the Pandora Papers. These documents reveal his purchase of three opulent properties in the heart of London but not that of Josef Goebbels. “The municipality of Berlin has confirmed that the house of the former Nazi propaganda chief was not sold to President Zelensky”concludes journalist Charlotte Gillard.
