Vérification des faits : l'Europe vend-elle vraiment sous-vêtements "anti-viol" ?
Des messages viraux prétendent que des sous-vêtements conçus pour protéger les femmes des agressions sexuelles ont été mis en vente en Europe. Ces allégations sont ensuite utilisées comme prétexte pour diffuser une rhétorique xénophobe.
00:00No, Europe is not selling anti-rape underwear
00:03Far-right figures and other social media users are sharing a clip which they wrongly claim shows a new, European-developed brand of anti-rape underwear
00:16The ex-posts, such as this one by British far-right activist Tommy Robinson, attempt to whip up xenophobic sentiment by suggesting that Europe is bringing in the underwear to protect women from immigrants
00:28Rather than closing its borders or stopping migration from the third world
00:32It says that the underwear was developed in the US and that a German company has launched similar products
00:38In the corner of the video, we can see a logo for ARwear
00:41A Google search of the company leads us to a page on the American crowdfunding website Indiegogo
00:47We can see that ARwear launched a campaign in 2013 to eventually produce the underwear
00:53Amassing just under $55,000 in donations, but it's now closed
00:58The company last posted an update in 2016, in which it outlined difficulties in the manufacturing process
01:04And internet users have repeatedly posted unanswered comments in recent years, suggesting the product was never released to the public
01:11We can also find the full, original version of the clip posted on X
01:15The Spanish subtitles in the smaller clip appear to originate from Spanish language video service VIX
01:21As we can see an older version of its logo in the top right corner
01:25As for the German company mentioned in the clip
01:28Another Google search takes us to various articles written in 2017 and 2018 about Safe Shorts
01:34A brand of anti-rape shorts created by a woman in Germany
01:38The pictures of the product match the ones from the German company shown in the clip
01:42But the Cube was unable to track down any website or contact details for the company, suggesting that they're no longer available
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