Quick Check: Old and unrelated video from Azerbaijan shared as 'Police implementing lockdown in Spain' - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
March 30, 2020
A video of Police beating and arresting people is being shared with a claim that it shows Police strictly implementing COVID-19 lockdown in Spain. FACTLY has found that the video was taken in October 2019 in Azerbaijan, not Spain. In the video, the Police were dispersing a protest .
Sources:
Claim – Facebook post (archived)
Fact – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZVYQyjwuE0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQLmvBDBEb8
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