{"id":1396053,"date":"2022-03-23T10:44:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T14:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1396053"},"modified":"2022-03-23T10:44:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T14:44:48","slug":"fact-check-does-this-video-show-a-ukrainian-refugee-attacking-passengers-aboard-an-italian-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-video-show-a-ukrainian-refugee-attacking-passengers-aboard-an-italian-train\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show A Ukrainian Refugee Attacking Passengers Aboard An Italian Train?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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-a-ukrainian-refugee-attacking-passengers-aboard-an-italian-train%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=1396053&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:\/\/archive.ph\/Ifcmo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> allegedly shows a Ukrainian refugee yelling at and attacking passengers on a train in Italy.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The video, filmed in 2018, shows two men attacking a Ukrainian woman and an Indian man. The video has nothing to do with the current refugee crisis.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More than 3.6 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia\u2019s initial Feb. 24 invasion, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (<a href=\"https:\/\/data2.unhcr.org\/en\/situations\/ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UNHCR<\/a>). The mayor of Warsaw, Poland is warning of potential shortages due to the added strain on the country\u2019s resources, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/03\/21\/ukraine-refugees-warsaw-poland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Washington Post<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook video appears to show two men verbally and physically assaulting several passengers on a train. \u201cUkrainian refugee on a train in Italy, shouts, I am a Facist(sic) and attacks passengers,\u201d the video\u2019s caption claims.<\/p>\n<p>The video predates the refugee crisis and does not show a refugee attacking passengers. A reverse image search revealed the video first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HcVzHgsWPHA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> Nov. 2, 2018, where it was posted by the Italian news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adnkronos.com\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adnkronos<\/a>. \u201cRome, the shocking video of racist aggression in the metro,\u201d reads a translated version of the video\u2019s title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn attack that was first verbal and then also physical against an Indian boy and a woman who intervened to avoid the worst. This is what happened in the Rome underground,\u201d the caption roughly translates to in English.<\/p>\n<p>The original incident took place around 9:30pm on Nov. 1 on the Rome-Lido train and the victims were a 57-year-old Ukrainian woman and a 28-year-old Indian man, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romatoday.it\/cronaca\/pestaggio-roma-lido-aggressione-razzista.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roma Today<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/03\/18\/fact-check-black-people-mistreatment-ukraine-conflict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(RELATED: Do These Photos Show Black People Being Mistreated In Ukraine?)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two 23-year-old men, later deemed to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilfaroonline.it\/2018\/11\/02\/roma-lido-denunciati-due-aggressori-tentato-rapina\/245560\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ukrainian<\/a>, wore \u201cblack Neo-Nazi bomber jackets\u201d and began attacking the Indian man before the woman tried to intervene, sustaining head and facial injuries, Italian news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilfaroonline.it\/2018\/11\/02\/raccapricciante-aggressione-sulla-roma-lido-caccia-agli-slavi\/245377\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Il Faro<\/a> reported. The pair reportedly attempted to steal a suitcase from the man prior to the assault, the outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilfaroonline.it\/2018\/11\/02\/roma-lido-denunciati-due-aggressori-tentato-rapina\/245560\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Facebook allegedly shows a Ukrainian refugee yelling at and attacking passengers on a train in Italy.Verdict: False The video, filmed in 2018, shows two men attacking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"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-1396053","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\/1396053","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\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396053\/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=1396053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}