Footage from a June 2020 police demonstration in France in which officers threw their handcuffs to the ground has been miscaptioned in social media posts.
It does not depict police surrendering amid the June and July 2023 riots in the country, contrary to social media claims.
“07/04/2023 Cops in France surrender,” reads a superimposed text in the video that has amassed over 132,600 likes on TikTok (here).
Reuters has previously addressed other miscaptioned footage from the same June 2020 police demonstrations (here), (here)VERDICTMiscaptioned.
This video is from a June 2020 police demonstration in France.
Persons:
”, Clément Lanot, Lanot, Christophe Castaner, Read
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Twitter, Reuters
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France, North, Parisian, Bobigny