Hungary's state television shows false images of Cologne attacks
On Tuesday, Hungarian state television falsely passed off images of sexual violence against women in Cairo as scenes from New Year's Eve in Cologne.
The news report with the false attribution of these images was still on the website of Hungarian television on Wednesday. Under the title "Shocking footage of the sexual assaults in Cologne", the Hungarian television news channel M1 broadcast a YouTube video several times on Tuesday. The video was made in 2012 when a mob of young men attacked and sexually harassed a Danish tourist on Tahrir Square in the Egyptian capital. The Hungarian media blog Comment.blog.hu spoke of a "fake news story". From the date alone on which the video was uploaded, it was clear that it could not have been made last New Year's Eve.
The public media in Hungary are strictly controlled by the right-wing conservative government. They are practically a mouthpiece for the policies of head of government Viktor Orban and do not shy away from falsification. Orban has sealed off his country with fences against refugees. He uses xenophobic rhetoric to criticize Germany's open attitude towards refugees. (SDA)
