{"id":596839,"date":"2021-07-19T12:35:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T16:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=596839"},"modified":"2021-07-19T12:35:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T16:35:24","slug":"fact-check-does-this-video-show-italians-celebrating-the-national-soccer-teams-european-championship-victory-with-firecrackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-video-show-italians-celebrating-the-national-soccer-teams-european-championship-victory-with-firecrackers\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show Italians Celebrating The National Soccer Team\u2019s European Championship Victory With Firecrackers?"},"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\">34<\/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-italians-celebrating-the-national-soccer-teams-european-championship-victory-with-firecrackers%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=596839&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Taiwan-e1626384250286.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hemant.sahasrabuddhe1\/videos\/322341792929435\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims to show Italians celebrating the men\u2019s national team\u2019s recent victory in the 2020 European Championship soccer tournament by igniting a long line of firecrackers.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The video shows a religious festival in Taiwan in April, not a soccer celebration in Italy.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Italy\u2019s national men\u2019s soccer team won the 2020 European Championship after defeating England on July 11, a win that prompted celebrations across the country, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/11\/sports\/soccer\/italy-wins-european-championship.html\">The New York Times<\/a>. Now, a July 13 video claims to show supporters of the team setting off a long line of red firecrackers in the street.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cItaly\u2019s celebration on euro cup winning,\u201d reads the post\u2019s caption. \u201cNo pollution for them ,only India\u2019s Dipawali crackers pollute the world!\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/04\/09\/fact-check-image-italian-police-equipment-solidarity-protesting-covid-19-restrictions\/\">(RELATED: Does This Image Show Italian Police Laying Down Their Equipment In Solidarity With People Protesting COVID-19 Restrictions?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dipawali, or Diwali, is India\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/kids.nationalgeographic.com\/pages\/article\/diwali\">most important holiday<\/a>, and is typically celebrated with a large festival in which firecrackers and fireworks are ignited, a tradition that has been criticized for contributing to air pollution, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2020\/11\/12\/934097578\/fireworks-of-diwali-spark-worries-about-pollution-and-coronavirus-cases\">NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook video does not, however, show a celebration in Italy. Through a reverse image search of key frames, Check Your Fact found similar footage posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P2W9nVfMDbU&amp;t=324s\">YouTube<\/a> in April by Taiwanese news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.setn.com\/\">Sanli News Network<\/a> with the title: \u201cFirecrackers stretch for 500 meters to welcome Baishatun Mazu enthusiastically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Baishatun Mazu (or Matsu) Pilgrimage is an annual religious festival in which tens of thousands of people walk 400 kilometers across Taiwan to honor the sea goddess Matsu, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/front\/archives\/2021\/04\/12\/2003755516\">Taipei Times<\/a>. This year\u2019s pilgrimage began on April 11, the outlet reported. Firecrackers are often set off along the route to celebrate the deity, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taiwan-panorama.com\/en\/Articles\/Details?Guid=33d9ab7c-b4f1-4ebf-9223-7af588f879db\">Taiwan Panorama<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Facebook claims to show Italians celebrating the men\u2019s national team\u2019s recent victory in the 2020 European Championship soccer tournament by igniting a long line of firecrackers.Verdict: &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596839","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\/596839","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596839\/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=596839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}