Video of the Pope’s visit to East Timor is wrongly linked to the protest by Indian Muslims

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Screenshot of the fake message, taken on September 26, 2024

The false claim surfaced when former Indian parliamentarian Imtiaz Jaleel led a convoy of hundreds of vehicles to Mumbai and called for the arrest of BJP politician Nitesh Rane and Hindu preacher Ramgiri Maharaj for “inflammatory comments” about Muslims. local media (archived link).

The demonstrators were denied entry into the city and returned after presenting their demands to government representatives.

The clip was shared elsewhere with similar false claims X and Facebook here And here.

But the claim is incorrect. The video was filmed during Pope Francis’ visit to East Timor.

East Timor images

A reverse image search of the images on Google found a higher quality version TikTok by an account called “rey.marques” on September 11, 2024. It was viewed over two million times (archived link).

Hashtags in the caption suggested it was filmed during the Pope’s visit to East Timor.

The Pope celebrated mass for hundreds of thousands of believers in the small Southeast Asian country on September 10 (archived link).

About 600,000 people out of a population of 1.3 million attended the Mass, the Vatican said in a statement, citing local authorities.

Below is a screenshot comparison of the clip shared in Fake Posts (left) and the TikTok footage (right):

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Screenshot comparison of the modified video (left) and the TikTok footage (right)

The images show the flag of East Timor on street lights and a poster of the Pope.

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Flag of East Timor on street lights and a poster of the Pope

AFP has done that before debunked another false claim in the Philippines sharing the same video.

Rey Marques, a photographer from the capital Dili who owns the TikTok account, told AFP at the time that he did not know who filmed the video but identified the scene as near the city’s Raikotu General Cemetery.

AFP confirmed the location of the images by comparing them with Google Street View imagery from the area (archived link).

Below is a screenshot comparison highlighting a house, street and tree in the TikTok video (left) and its associated elements on Google Street View (right):

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Screenshot comparison highlighting a house, street and tree in the TikTok video (left) and its associated elements on Google Street View (right)

A live stream on the Facebook page of local media TVET entertainment shows a similar scene of crowds walking after Mass (archived link).

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