00:03Υπότιτλοι AUTHORWAVE
00:30...have been impersonated to push fabricated claims about the West and Ukraine.
00:34In this particular clip, 300 men pose in front of a dummy of a French Foreign Legion soldier...
00:39...whose face has the French flag painted on it.
00:41The men threaten to shed blood on the 14th of July in Paris...
00:45...if the government continues to supply weapons to the Zionist regime...
00:48...in an apparent reference to Israel.
00:50The clip first spread on Telegram before moving to X and Facebook...
00:54...gaining almost one million views across X posts.
00:57In the content we analysed, the men don't make an explicit reference to the group they belong to...
01:02...but social media posts refer to them as Hezbollah, a Lebanese militia backed by Iran.
01:07Hezbollah's military wing is classified as a terrorist organisation by the EU.
01:11The arm patch on the soldier's uniform also resembles the group's.
01:16Nevertheless, there are multiple clues that the video is fake.
01:19Our Arabic-speaking colleagues told us that the accent resembled Levantine Arabic...
01:23...but not a Lebanese Arabic accent...
01:26...and added that the speaker also made multiple grammatical mistakes.
01:29Additionally, Hezbollah typically incorporates its own logos into videos shared on its channels...
01:35But this isn't the case here.
01:36The video bears similarities to others connected to Storm 1516, such as this one...
01:41...which impersonates an Islamist militant group threatening to burn down Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral.
01:48This was also linked to the pro-Russian group, which has a track record of fabricating evidence...
01:53...especially in the run-up to major events.
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