Fake Video Used In News Coverage Of Brussels Terror Attacks

Global Research

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky

 March 22, 2016

Brussels News media Derniere Heure at dhnet.be as well as La Libre reported on the terror attacks by providing a CC Camera Airport Surveillance Video of the terror attacks. 

The published video footage was fake as documented by a blog posting on Media Part. 

The video pertains to a terror attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport on 24 January 2011 (posted on youtube in November 2013).

The  report of DHnet.be on the Brussels airport attack used the video of the Moscow 2011 attack with the date of the Brussels attack: (22/03/2016) pasted onto the Russian video.

Below is the screenshot of DH’s report.

 And the screenshot of  La Libre at http://lalibre.be,

And here is a screenshot of the terror attack at Moscow’s Domodedova International Airport published on youtube in November 2013 followed by the full youtube video of the Moscow attack:

According to the BBC (January 24, 2011) report (which includes the video), the Moscow 2011 airport attack  resulted in 35 dead.

Both the DH and Le Libre reports have since then been removed:

http://www.dhnet.be/recherche?query=video+

source: http://www.dhnet.be/s/vid/56f0ff8f35702a22d59d46bf

source: http://www.lalibre.be/recherche?query=video

Was it sloppy journalism or  media disinformation? Did the Brussels media mistakenly rely on a fake video taken from social media or from video archives? The background audio in Russian was suppressed.

The CC camera video recordings at Brussels airport would not normally have been made available to journalists immediately after the attacks.

The video was posted on lalibre.be and dhnet.be at 9.07 am local time; the attacks took place at approximately 8am local time. The video was identified as an airport CC surveillance  video.  The timely decision to post this video indicating its source (Airport surveillance camera) was taken within an hour.

Under the auspices of airport security, the video would normally have been made available to police investigators prior to a decision to making them public.

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