{"id":1045315,"date":"2021-11-22T18:43:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T23:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1045315"},"modified":"2021-11-22T18:43:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T23:43:37","slug":"fact-check-does-this-video-show-austrians-protesting-the-countrys-recent-covid-19-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-video-show-austrians-protesting-the-countrys-recent-covid-19-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show Austrians Protesting The Country\u2019s Recent COVID-19 Lockdown?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-video-show-austrians-protesting-the-countrys-recent-covid-19-lockdown%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1045315&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lucia_nurse_74\/status\/1461182133586698240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Twitter<\/a> allegedly shows a protest in Austria after the country\u2019s government instituted a lockdown for unvaccinated individuals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.0051546391753\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Austria after the lockdown for the unvaccinated [THE GLORY OF THE PEOPLE]. SHARE this far and wide.<br \/>@SergeantRobertHorton <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c0ZW5hqLo0\">pic.twitter.com\/c0ZW5hqLo0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lucia (@Lucia_nurse_74) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lucia_nurse_74\/status\/1461182133586698240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The video dates back to 2019 and shows soccer fans, not people protesting pandemic-related restrictions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Austrian government instituted a lockdown on people who have not been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, requiring them to remain in their homes except for essential reasons such as grocery shopping and working, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/11\/17\/austria-covid-lockdown-police-conduct-random-vaccine-status-checks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNBC<\/a>. The lockdown has since been extended to everyone in the country, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/11\/19\/1057182839\/austria-lockdown-covid-vaccination-mandatory-mandate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a video purporting to show Austrians marching in protest after the lockdowns were announced is spreading online. However, it dates back to well before the World Health Organization in March 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2020\/03\/11\/who-declares-the-coronavirus-outbreak-a-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">declared<\/a> COVID-19 a global pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact found the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FanbeauftragteVfL1900\/videos\/543447653102782\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">same video<\/a> posted in late November 2019 on a Facebook fan page for the German soccer team Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach, with the caption indicating it was taken in Graz, Austria. It can also be found on the YouTube channel&nbsp;RP ONLINE \u2013 WIR SIND SPORT, where it was also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3cBBEVboL6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">linked<\/a> in the Nov. 29, 2019, caption to the same soccer team and the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver 6,000 fans attended Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach\u2019s Europa League game against Wolfsberger AC in the Merkur Arena in Graz,\u201d reads a translation of the YouTube video\u2019s caption. \u201cMany of them previously took part in the fan march from the city center to the venue for the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Borussia+M%C3%B6nchengladbach+november+28+2019&amp;rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS966US966&amp;oq=Borussia+M%C3%B6nchengladbach+november+28+2019&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57.8494j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8#sie=m;\/g\/11hdsxqsr4;2;\/m\/01hrtp;dt;fp;1;;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">won<\/a> a match against the Wolfsberger AC soccer team on Nov. 28, 2019. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/07\/27\/fact-check-london-protest-mandatory-covid-vaccines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Image Show A London Protest Against Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccines?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the video in question does not show people protesting against Austria\u2019s COVID-19 restrictions, thousands of Austrians did, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/europe-protests-virus-restrictions-netherlands-austria-italy-bea60fffc55590d0b956752274ddfb88\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a>, demonstrate in the capital city of Vienna on Saturday. Genuine images of people protesting against Austria\u2019s recent lockdown measures can be viewed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/photos\/austria-protest?family=editorial&amp;assettype=image&amp;agreements=ed%3A7788%2Cpa%3A114372&amp;phrase=austria%20protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Getty Images<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Twitter allegedly shows a protest in Austria after the country\u2019s government instituted a lockdown for unvaccinated individuals. Austria after the lockdown for the unvaccinated [THE GLORY &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}